Gazette: Delegates of Indian descent rip Kentucky candidate
Three Montgomery County state delegates of Indian descent have condemned as highly offensive a Kentucky gubernatorial candidate’s remarks about Hindus.
House Majority Leader Kumar Barve, along with Dels. Aruna Miller and Sam Arora, also called for Kentucky gubernatorial candidate David Williams, a Republican, to apologize for remarks he made earlier this week.
Williams had criticized Democratic Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear for taking part in a Hindu “ground blessing ceremony” to mark the opening of a new packaging plant, a $180 million investment expected to create 250 jobs in Elizabethtown, Ky.
Williams criticized Beshear for respecting the religion of the new plant’s owners, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
"To get down and get involved and participate in prayers to these polytheistic situations, where you have these Hindu gods that they are praying to, doesn't appear to me to be in line with what a governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky ought to be doing," Williams said in a campaign speech, according to the Kentucky newspaper.
Williams is trailing Beshear in polls a week before the Kentucky election.
“His words were an insult to all Americans, not just to Hindus,” Barve said in an emailed statement.
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