Another day, another empty boast from your typical right-wing Indian politician. As Obama said in his memoirs recently, nothing unites India other than calling for hate against Pakistan. BJP politicians sure are obsessed with Karachi for some reason nowadays. Just recently, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) member Devendra Fadnavis made stupid remarks about Karachi becoming a part of India. His comments come after the row over the famous sweetmeats shop Karachi Sweets in Bandra.
Last week, Hindu extremist party Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaonkar was in the news for demanding that Mumbai’s famous confectioner ‘Karachi Sweets’ change the name of their shop.
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His comments have now spurred Maharashtra’s ex-chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to say the same. All because they got bothered over a shop’s name.
“We believe in ‘Akhand Bharat’. We also believe that Karachi will be a part of India one day,”
https://twitter.com/Kostubh24117219/status/1330144109886119946
Last week BJP coalition party Shiv Sena’s leader Nitin Nandgaonkar demanded that a 60-year-old confectioners, Karachi Sweets, change its name to something in Marathi. The reason being that Nitin Nandgaonkar hates Pakistan and can’t tolerate anything remotely Pakistani in ‘his Mumbai’.
https://twitter.com/NumbKhopdi/status/1329604898833395713
The video of the incident went viral as the internet called out the ridiculous prejudice. Another Shiv Sena leader had to step in for damage control.
Karachi bakery and karachi sweets have been in mumbai since last 60 years. They have nothing to do with Pakistan . It makes no sense to ask for changing their names now.Demand for changing their name is not shivsena's official stance.
— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) November 19, 2020
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However, according to Mumbai Mirror, the shop owners have masked the store’s original signboard. Given the statistics surrounding lynch mobs who target Muslims in India through the BJP government, perhaps they’re just being careful.
Will Indian politicians ever be able to get over their Karachi obsession? Your guess is as good as ours.
