Union Minister and former Army Chief General VK Singh on Sunday said that the day is not far when Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) will be merged with India again. The Union Minister was speaking during the Tiranga Rally For PoK organized by the Muslim National Forum, a Muslim nationalist organisation, here in the state capital.

Speaking on the occasion, Singh said, “It is important that we understand that PoK was our land, will remain our land and no one else can occupy it.”

He said that if the British had not conspired, there was no way the country would have been conquered by Pakistan.

“(The) day is not far away (when) this desire and this awareness will automatically arise among the people there and… they will leave again and join us,” he added.

The Tiranga Rally For PoK march started from the Red Fort. After Delhi, over 100 such movements are being organized across the country.

During the day, senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar said it was the “mistakes” of the then government and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that led to Pakistan’s capture of the country.

“At the time of Partition, the present PoK was in India. Due to the mistakes of the then government, it remained under the control of Pakistan… At that time, the Congress government and Pandit Nehru were trapped in the maze of “The British made it so that these mistakes happened,” the RSS chief told ANI.

Furthermore, this is not the first time that the former army chief has spoken about PoK. Earlier this month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP claimed that the PoK would soon merge with India “on its own”.

“PoK will merge with India on its own, wait for some time,” the Union foreign minister said while responding to a question at a press conference in Rajasthan’s Dausa on the demands of Shia Muslims in PoK for opening of border crossing with India.