Melbourne: Dr. Gaurav Sharma, one of the newly elected young MPs in New Zealand, took oath in Sanskrit in the Parliament of the country on Wednesday. Dr. Sharma (33) is from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. He was recently elected a Labor MP from Hamilton West, New Zealand.
Muktesh Pardeshi, India’s High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa, said on Twitter that Sharma took the oath in Mori, the language of New Zealand, and then in Sanskrit, the language of India, expressing deep respect for the cultural traditions of India and New Zealand. Lee. Sharma has an MBBS from Auckland and an MBA from Washington. He works as a general practitioner in Notton, Hamilton.
He has worked in the field of public health and policy making in New Zealand, Spain, USA, Nepal, Vietnam, Mongolia, Switzerland and India. A person on Twitter asked Sharma why he did not take the oath in Hindi. On this Sharma said that not everyone can be made happy, so he considered it appropriate to take oath in Sanskrit which gave respect to all Indian languages.
He tweeted, “Honestly I thought about it but the question arose about taking oath in my first language Pahari or Punjabi. It’s hard to keep everyone happy. Sanskrit respects all languages, so I thought it appropriate to take an oath in it. ” Sharma was defeated in the 2017 elections. This year he defeated Tim Masindo of the National Party.
