BJP leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis on Saturday said that Karachi “will be a part of India” while answering
questions regarding a Shiv Sena leader’s objections towards a shop named ‘Karachi
Sweets’ in Mumbai, news agency ANI tweeted.

“We believe in Akhand Bharat. We also believe that Karachi
will be a part of India one day,” Fadnavis said.

This statement of Fadnavis came regarding a Shiv Sena leader’s
objections pertaining to a shop named ‘Karachi Sweets’ in Mumbai’s Bandra region
that has existed for 60 years.

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The leader reportedly demanded omission of the word ‘Karachi’.

“We don’t subscribe to this demand for name change. ‘Karachi
Sweets’ has been in existence for 60 years and is in Mumbai and India”, Shiv
Sena MP as well as party spokesperson Sanjay Raut had earlier said.

Fadnavis also defended Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath’s initiatives to end ‘Love Jihad’.

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“These are all pseudo-secular people … they think attacking
and abusing Hindus is secularism,” Fadnavis said in answer to questions
regarding Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s accusation towards the BJP of
manufacturing the term in order to disrupt communal harmony in the country.

Adding to the issue, Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday said that he would support BJP’s move “if it creates one country by merging India, Pakistan and Bangladesh”.

“The way Devendra ji has said that time will come Karachi will be the part of India. We have been saying that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh should be merged. If the Berlin wall can be demolished then why not India, Pakistan and Bangladesh can come together? If BJP wishes to merge these three countries and make a single country, we will welcome it definitely,” Malik told ANI.