Partition not a settled fact,has to be undone,says Bhagwat

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat opened another front on Friday when he said that 'partition of the country was not a settled fact'.

With the BJP-in-transition debating its dynamics with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat opened another front on Friday when he said that partition of the country was not a settled fact and that the division of the sub-continent would have to be undone for everyones good.

We are often told to forget about this (Partition),but those who forget are condemned to repeat it. Partition is not a settled fact,and it shall have to be undone. When we refer to Bharat,its always Akhand Bharat. Those who think otherwise have been brought up on a western value system in the name of progress, he said at the release of a booklet called Bharat Vibhajan Ek Trasadi,Ek Kalank (Indias Partition A Tragedy,A Blot).

Bhagwats speech runs contrary to the dominant stream of thought on India and its Neighbourhood in the BJP. During the NDA rule in 1999,the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had visited Minar-e-Pakistan while in 2005,BJP leader L K Advani visited Mohammed Ali Jinnahs mausoleum in Karachi two steps that the BJP regards important in according Pakistan legitimacy as an independent country.

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While Bharatiya Jana Sangh ideologue late Deen Dayal Upadhyay had mooted a confederation of South Asian states,Bhagwat didnt specify his own blueprint for Akhand Bharat,but added that no truth could be established without adequate force and that a common Hindu past alone could be the basis of emotional integration for the subcontinent and that it would be the basis for everyones happiness. He also claimed that recent research findings on DNA mapping have established that the inhabitants of this sub-continent in the last 40,000 years have had similar DNA,and thus no one could be called minorities in the country.

Bhagwat indicated that Afghanistan,Pakistan,Tibet,Nepal,Myanmar and Sri Lanka once formed Akhand Bharat.

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