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In a bold statement, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the borders may change and Sindh may again become part of India.

While speaking at the Sindhi Samaj Sammelan Program event in New Delhi, he said that Sindh, along the Indus River, went to Pakistan during the partition in 1947, but a huge number of people from the Sindhi community moved to India.

Citing former Deputy PM and senior BJP leader LK Advani's book, Rajnath said Sindhi Hindus never accepted the separation of the Sindh region from India.

He said, "I'd also like to mention that Lal Krishna Advani wrote in one of his books that Sindhi Hindus, especially those of his generation, still haven't accepted the separation of Sindh from India".

"Many Muslims in Sindh also believed that the water of the Indus was no less sacred than the Aab-e-Zamzam of Mecca. This is Advani's quote. Today, the land of Sindh may not be a part of India, but civilisationally, Sindh will always be a part of India. And as far as land is concerned, borders can change. Who knows, tomorrow Sindh may return to India again," he added.

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Speaking of atrocities over Sindhi people and others in Pakistan and other neighbouring countries, Rajnath also emphasised the necessity of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). He said, "Minority communities in many neighbouring countries have been suffering for years. Their homes were burned, their children were killed, their daughters were subjected to cruelty and torture, and people were forcibly converted. When many of them somehow managed to escape and come to India, the treatment meted out to them by appeasement-seeking governments cannot be condemned enough. They were humiliated simply to appease the vote bank of a particular community."

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"A special class of people coming from neighbouring countries was given refuge. But the people of this Hindu community, who truly deserved it, were not given the rights they deserved. Their suffering was not understood with compassion. But if anyone understood this pain, it was our Prime Minister Narendra Modi...That is why we introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill," Singh said.

(With ANI Inputs)

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