Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has defended India’s treatment of the Muslim minority. FM Sitharaman, during a virtual panel discussion organized by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIE), disputed the adverse impressions of India conducted by the western media and said that foreign investors should visit India to see the country’s development.
PIIE President Adam S. Posen questioned Sitharaman over reports that MPs from the opposition party had lost their positions and alleged persecution of Muslim minorities in India. He asked whether the number of Muslims in India has decreased and whether any community has seen an unusually high number of deaths since 2014. He compared the situation in India with Pakistan, where the living conditions of minorities are deteriorating and their population is increasing. shrink.
“Between 2014 and today, has the population decreased? Are deaths disproportionately high in any one particular community? So, I would invite the people who write these reports to come to India. I host them Let them come to India and prove their point.”
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Sitharaman was questioned over reports that MPs from the opposition party had lost their status and the alleged persecution of the Muslim minority in India by PIIE President Adam S. Posen. He asked whether there were fewer Muslims in India and whether any minority had seen an unusually high number of deaths since 2014. He compared the cases of India and Pakistan, where minority populations are dwindling and living conditions are deteriorating.
Sitharaman further said that serious charges have been framed against minorities in Pakistan, which can result in punishment including the death penalty. In Pakistan, he claimed that some Muslim sects had also been wiped out, but that Muslims in India were doing better and there was no evidence of a significant decline in their population.
Sitharaman asked world Trade The organization should be more forward-thinking and allow space for the views of nations with different points of view, for all nations to be heard.
It claimed that “developing markets” like India were heavily burdened and that every company needed to seek help or make a positive contribution in any situation. He emphasized that despite the mayhem at home, Indians were able to rise to the occasion and succeed in their companies because of their tenacity.
(With ANI inputs)
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