Srinagar, Jan. 6 -- Jammu and Kashmir Minister Javed Rana on Tuesday said the day is not far when Ladakh will once again become a part of a united Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that the Government of India has no other alternative. Rana was responding to a query from a reporter regarding senior BJP leader and former minister Sham Lal Sharma's demand for a separate state for the Jammu region.

The Minister said Jammu and Kashmir was once a full-fledged state that was broken into pieces, comparing it to a heart shattered into a thousand fragments. "Some parts went here, some went there. Even the boundary of our state once extended up to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," he said.

Rana, who is Minister for Jal Shakti, Forest, Ecology & Environment and Triba...