Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh responded to the statement of veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah about intolerance in the country.
Speaking at an event at a medical college in Lucknow, Singh said, “I don’t think the tolerance that exists in India can be found anywhere else in the world.”
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He further went on to say that the diversity in India is what makes it a prosperous nation. “India is the only country in the world where people from various prominent religions co-exist peacefully… They have contributed to making India empowered, self-reliant and prosperous and will continue to do so,” Singh said.
Shah made a reference to the Bulandshahr unrest while speaking to a YouTube channel on Thursday saying that the “the death of a cow is more important than that of a police officer”. He also said that he worried about his children over communal violence.
“We have already witnessed that the death of a cow has more significance (in today’s India) than that of a police officer,” he had said in the interview. “Are the lives of Muslims less valuable than the life of a cow?”, Shah said in the video interview.
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