File photo of Nawab Malik.
The comments come amid an ongoing exchange after a Shiv Sena leader, Nitin Madhukar Nandgaonkar, threatened the owner of a candy shop in Bandra, Karachi Sweets, to change his name because it coincided with a city in Pakistan.
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Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik said on Sunday that the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would welcome the BJP move “if it creates a country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.”
The comments come amid an ongoing exchange after Shiv Sena’s leader Nitin Madhukar Nandgaonkar threatened the owner of a Bandra sweet shop, Karachi Sweets, to change his name, as it coincided with a city in Pakistan. .
Shortly after Nandgaonkar’s action created a sensation on social media, Sanjay Raut said it was not Shiv Sena’s official position to change the name and defended the name of the candy store. He said that Karachi Bakery and Karachi sweets had been in Mumbai for the past 60 years and had nothing to do with Pakistan. “It makes no sense to ask that they change their names now. He also said that the demand for change is not the official position of the party,” he had said.
Soon after, former Maharashtra Prime Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said: “We believe in ‘Akhand Bharat.’ We also believe that Karachi will be part of India one day.”
In response to his statement, Malik said that in the way that Fadnavis had said that Karachi would be part of India in time, the PNC has been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should merge.
“If the Berlin wall can be demolished, why can’t India, Pakistan and Bangladesh unite? If the BJP wants to merge these three countries and make one country, we will definitely welcome it,” he said.
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