Statistics show that India is a nation of Hindus: Kamal Nath | India News

BHOPAL: Former chief minister and state Congress president Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that a country with 82% Hindu population is a Hindu predominant nation and there is no need for a debate to claim India is a Hindu nation.

“What is there to debate?” Kamal Nath asked. “We are already a nation with 82% Hindus. In the world, if a country has such a large Hindu population then it is (a Hindu Rashtra). What is there to claim that we are a Hindu rashtra? The statistics say it all.”
The senior Congress leader was speaking to reporters at the state PCC office on Tuesday. The question of his belief in the Hindu Rashtra arose after Kamal Nath invited and hosted Bageshwar Dham spiritual guru Dhirendra Krishna Shastri to Chhindwara from August 5 to 7 for three-days of Ram Katha discourse. Dhirendra Krishna Shastri has been advocating that India will be a Hindu rashtra.

Three months before the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath clarified that when 82% of the nation’s population are Hindus, then there should be no debate on whether it is a nation of Hindus because the numbers prove that it is.
State BJP has been attacking the veteran Congress leader claiming that he becomes a Hindu before elections. On Tuesday morning, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, “Those who avoided taking the name of Lord Rama, used to consider him a mythical character are now hosting Ram Katha and Hanuman Chalisa recitals. Because they are under compulsion. The elections are approaching and this is the Congress’ election devotion.”
Chouhan also mentioned the disagreement in the Congress party after MLA Umang Singhar demanded a tribal chief minister for the state. “There is a lot of internal conflict in the Congress party. Kamal Nath does not know which way to go. And a party leader has now said who should be the chief minister. Questions are being raised on his leadership. I think to strengthen his role as a leader, he is now organizing religious discourses,” Chouhan argued.
Reacting to Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his pre-election devotee claim, Kamal Nath said, “I constructed the biggest Hanumana temple in Chhindwara 15 years ago. Were there elections at that time? I have never given any publicity about this, but what is visible to the public cannot be denied.”
He said that after Pandit Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, another religious preacher Pandit Pradeep Mishra has also been invited to Chhindwara. Kamal Nath said that Pandit Pradeep Mishra’s arrival in Chhindwara is proposed. “When I came to know about his program, I said that we will welcome you in Chhindwara, any religious person is welcome to come to Chhindwara,” Kamal Nath said.