Bakshi Kanwaljit SinghKANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI (National): First of all I would like to take this opportunity to thank you Mr Speaker for your leadership in this term. This is the last general debate. I would also like to thank all the staff in Parliament who have been helpful in this term.I am proud to be part of this National-led Government which has helped this economy to grow. It has brought the economy back on track. This is the Government that embraces growth because it delivers more jobs higher wages and greater opportunity for New Zealanders. We are the Government that believes in New Zealand and knows what the challenges of growth are and we know New Zealanders also accept that. Our opponents on the other hand would shut down growth because they are not up to tackling the challenges that success brings. These are the very important things that we need to understand.In the past few days I have accompanied the Prime Minister on some of the major announcements he has made. The first one which I am very pleased about in particular was the announcement on law and order and tackling youth crime. That is one area that the Indian diaspora and the ethnic community are very concerned about. The Prime Minister announced that we will be tackling it and he made some major announcements about how we are going to tackle these youth offenders. We are going to make sure that if we are back in the Government we will make it happen.The other announcement was when the Prime Minister announced that the infrastructure investment in South Auckland particularly the electrification of Papakura to Pukekohe will make a lot of difference to infrastructure and that will help to reduce congestion on the roads.The third announcement which made the Indian community particularly the Sikh community very excited was when the Prime Minister said that if National forms the Government it will amend the Crimes Act to ensure that the Kirpan is recognised and is not included in offensive weapon". I am disappointed with some of the hypocrisy that happens around here. About a year ago a delegation of Sikhs met the Rt Hon Winston Peters and presented him with a Kirpan which he accepted. The day before yesterday he said he will oppose that bill when it comes through the Parliament. So I cannot understand which way he is going.Hon Amy Adams: Whichever way. It depends on the group he's talking to that determines which way he's going.KANWALJIT SINGH BAKSHI: Exactly. The people of Indian origin are really disappointed with his comments and moreover it was a disappointment when he said that Hindus want to have the trishula or trident that they want to carry. When I see the news coverage today in the Indian Weekender it has quoted some of the Hindu leaders who say—I would like to quote some of the quotes they have made particularly from Roshan Nauhria the trustee of Balmoral temple; he says: "Every religious cultural group have their individual cultural aspirations. If aspirations of one cultural group are being fulfilled by the government of the day then there is no need for other cultural groups to sulk or worry about [it]". That is what the Rt Hon Winston Peters said the Hindus are demanding.I would like to quote from Mr Vinod Kumar who is the president of the Hindu Council; he says: "I can confirm that the Hindus in New Zealand do not have any such aspirations to carry a trident". I do not know from where the Rt Hon Winston Peters got this information where he said that Hindus are also demanding. He has got some very wrong advice and I think he needs to have better advice.What he is trying to do is to divide the Indian community. He wants to create the division between the Hindus and the Sikhs and he is playing. I understand that he is going to attend another event this weekend with the Indians. When it comes to asking for the vote he wants to go to the Indians; when it comes to supporting them he does not want to support them. It is totally totally inappropriate for him to do this. He is totally anti-migrant. All his speeches and all his team are anti-migrant. Whenever you see his team they will just target the migrants and want to blame—that migrants are responsible for anything happening in this country. I think it is totally incorrect—it is. Thank you."