Don’t preach Islam to me: Hindu lawmaker Danesh Kumar in Pakistan Senate

A Hindu politician in Pakistan, Danesh Kumar, has accused his fellow lawmakers of making an attempt to get him to rework to Islam and warned them to not preach Islam to him. He moreover talked about the nation’s aggravating meals catastrophe when addressing the Senate, the upper dwelling of the Pakistani Parliament on Thursday.

Danesh Kumar acknowledged, “My colleagues often urge me to recite the ‘Kalima’ and get converted to Islam. First, teach Islam to the criminal Muslims (hoarders) and then ask me to do so.” ‘Kalima’ is the formal content material materials of the ‘Shahada’ (declaration of faith in Islam).

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Danesh Kumar slammed the incumbent authorities for doing little to forestall the meals hoarders on the market. He moreover attacked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s administration for bringing regarding the nation’s catastrophic meals catastrophe. Speaking on Pakistan’s current inflation downside, he remarked, “It is a source of embarrassment that food costs have increased in the holy month of Ramazan.”

His suggestions coincided with newest tales of stampedes that killed folks queuing for meals in the midst of the provision of free rations. This yr’s Ramadaz has already witnessed 16 fatalities as people frantically sought out free wheat flour and totally different meals objects beneath historically extreme inflation.

He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan on a reserved seat for minorities inside the 2018 Pakistani frequent election representing Balochistan Awami Party (BAP). He is presently serving inside the nation’s senate. He has been the senate’s most outspoken opponent of the pressured conversion of minorities (Hindu and Christian) to Islam.

Pakistan is notorious for the atrocities devoted in opposition to minorities, considerably Hindus. Minor Hindu girls are the frequent victims of kidnapping, rape, and compelled conversions inside the nation. The Pakistan authorities has repeatedly come beneath fire for its treatment of minorities and the absence of measures to verify their safety and security in opposition to regular oppression.