Nawab Malik ruled out any possibility of confinement in Maharashtra. (Archive)
Mumbai:
Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik said on Sunday that his party, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), would welcome the BJP move “if it creates a country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.”
“The way Devendra ji has said the time will come, Karachi will be part of India. We have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should merge. If the Berlin wall can be demolished, why not India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? If the BJP wants to merge these three countries and make one country, we will definitely welcome it, “Malik told ANI, when asked about former BJP chief minister and leader Devendra Fadnavis’s comment on Karachi.
Malik said that the PNC wants to participate in the elections of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) together with Shiv Sena and the Congress, which are part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) in Maharashtra.
“There are still 15 months until the BMC elections. Each party has the right to work for its party, and each party is doing it. We are also strengthening our party. We would like those who lead the government to all three We should contest the polls together”, said.
The Cabinet minister also ruled out any possibility of closure in Maharashtra saying it is not necessary.
“Our Aarogya secretariat has sent a notice to each district that we have to be prepared in light of the second wave of COVID-19. We have been successful in containing the coronavirus. Cases in some states are increasing and restrictions have been imposed. This It is not the condition in Maharashtra. There is no such type of situation in Maharashtra that we should impose a blockade, “he said.
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