Sad that Sindh is not a part of India: LK Advani

Indian leader was speaking in presence of Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina during an event

NEW DELHI: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, LK Advani on Monday expressed his sadness that Sindh was not a part of India, according to The Hindu.

The 89-year-old leader, also a former Indian deputy prime minister, was speaking along with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina during an event in the Indian capital.



He rued that Sindh, where he was born, was not a part of an independent India.

“I do not know how many of you have this realisation, the realisation that I have that there was one part of India when India was undivided, not independent and was under British rule, there was one such part where I was born,” he lamented.

Advani said, “When India became independent, along with our independence, that part got separated from us. The place I was born — Sindh — is not part of India, it is not with us. I and my comrades, those who lived in that part feel sad (about this).”

This is not the first the Indian leader has felt wistful about Sindh.



Earlier in January 2017, LK Advani had said that India appeared “incomplete” without Sindh and Karachi in its territory.

“At times I feel sad that Karachi and Sindh are not part of India anymore. I was very active in the RSS during my childhood days in Sindh. It is a matter of dismay. I believe that India appears incomplete without Sindh,” the senior BJP leader had said.