'They Have Come Here In Desperation’: Leading Indian All-Party Delegation, Ravi Shankar Prasad Slams Pakistani Protesters In Denmark

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday (30 May) slammed Pakistani nationals raising anti-India slogans outside a venue hosting the Indian parliamentary delegation led by the BJP MP in Denmark's Copenhagen, calling them “desperate" and urged people to “ignore them with impunity".

According to a report by Hindustan Times, Prasad, while addressing the Indian community, said the protest was a sign of desperation.

“I was very surprised to see Pakistanis here raising slogans. Our programme is going very well; we are getting wide coverage. Their handlers in Pakistan must have told them to do something,” he said.

"They have come here in desperation. Pakistan is a desperate country that lives in desperation. Ignore them with impunity," Prasad said.

Prasad also raised the human rights violations faced by people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Balochistan.

“Do you know the kind of suffering people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir are going through? Many are desperate to move to India. In Balochistan, women are subjected to some of the most brutal and inhumane treatment imaginable," he said.

Highlighting that Pakistan is going through a major turmoil currently, the BJP MP said that four traditional wars have been fought by the two countries but none of them were started by India.

“Pakistan is going through major turmoil today. We have fought four traditional wars—not one of them was started by India; we only defended ourselves, and Pakistan was defeated in each one of them. The Pakistan that Jinnah created has now turned into a military-run enterprise,” he said.

In Copenhagen, the Indian parliamentary delegation includes BJP MP Daggubati Purandeswari, Samik Bhattacharya, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress MPs Ghulam Ali Khatana and Amar Singh, former Union Minister MJ Akbar, and former Ambassador Pankaj Saran.

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