"At the appropriate time, we will form akhand (composite) Bharat. We have to regain the area which we lost in 1947. We have to regain Lahore - the capital of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Khalsa Raj. We have to reclaim Nankana Sahib and several other religious places, as also Sindhu (Indus) and Kasoor. The feeling for "akhand Bharat" has to survive because it is akin to the feeling that led to the unification of Germany, Vietnam and Poland, Partition of India was wrong.'

... Maximum sacrifices for the country were made by the Khalsa Panth ... The ninth guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur ... made the supreme sacrifice of his own life when he refused to bow before Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb only  for Hinduism ... The Sikh puras belonged to the entire country and also talked of "Hindustan" in their writings.

... Those who didn't agree with the RSS are free to say anything but that would not affect RSS policies or programmes in the least ... The masses (should) beware of elements who were attacking the RSS while stressing on a separate, distinct Sikh identity ... it was because of such people that Punjab had to witness bloodshed for almost 13 years. Even now, they didn't want peace to be maintained.

.... India was a Hindu 'rashtra" ... Hindu in this context referred to the nationality. There were many religions in India and the correct translation for this term in Hindi was not "dharma but "panth" or "sampradaye". The RSS had been accused of being anti-Muslim and anti-Christian in the past, but of late some elements had even gone to the extent of dubbing it anti-Sikh ... (Source: The Statesman, 30 April, 2000)