Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik on Sunday said his Nationalist Congress Party will welcome the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Centr...
Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik on Sunday said his Nationalist Congress Party will welcome the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Centre’s decision to create one country after merging India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, reported ANI.
The state minister was reacting to BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis’ comment on Saturday that Karachi would one day be a part of the “akhand Bharat”. “We believe in ‘akhand Bharat [undivided India]’,” Fadnavis had said, according to The Indian Express. “We believe one day Karachi will become a part of India.”
Malik on Sunday said that the NCP will support the BJP’s efforts to merge the three countries together. “We [NCP] have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should be merged,” the Maharashtra minister said. “If the Berlin wall can be demolished then why not India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together? If BJP wishes to merge these three countries and make a single country, we will welcome it definitely.”
Fadnavis’s comment followed after a controversy emerged last week as Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaonkar posted a video of him telling the owner of Mumbai snack shop Karachi Sweets to change the name of his store to “something in Marathi”. “Your ancestors are from Pakistan,” Nandgaonkar was heard saying in the video. “You came from the country during the Partition, and you...
