Dhaka: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Ram Madhav has said that parts of India, including Bangladesh and Pakistan which were separated 60 years ago, will reunite to form Akhand Bharat (undivided India).

‘The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) still believes one day these parts, which have for historical reasons separated only 60 years ago, will again, through popular goodwill, come together and Akhand Bharat will be created,’ The Times of India quoted Ram Madhav as saying in an interview with international news network Al-Jazeera.

He said as an RSS member he also holds that view.

Ram Madhav, however, clarified that this will not happen through war, but through ‘popular consent’.

‘That doesn’t mean we wage war on any country, (or that) we annex any country. Without war, through popular consent, it can happen,’ he said.

He also spoke about the issue of growing intolerance in India saying the returning of awards by artists and intellectuals is a bid to defame the government and in turn to defame India’s image.

He said the method of protest adopted by these intellectuals is wrong.

Madhav, an RSS leader, was deputed to the BJP after the general elections last year. He played an important role in Jammu and Kashmir elections and formation of a BJP-PDP coalition government in the state.