Asad Umar Rooting For This Child Selling Samosas Is Really Problematic

We all have witnessed children selling books, flowers, toys or cleaning vehicles at almost every signal on a daily basis.

Seeing these kids sell stuff to earn money while they should be at school and enjoying their childhood; you’re left wondering why despite so much talk on child rights, child labour still prevails in our society.

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A netizen recently shared a video of a minor selling samosas at a roadside after school.

According to the video, the boy named Zahid, studies in 4th class. He sells samosas made by her mother after school everyday.

Met Zahid outside the hospital, an absolute honour to have bought samosaas from this lil merchant ♥️😘his smile,his confidence & fearless attitude dil lagaya mera🙂wish him a blessed life ahead . Definitely our future leader 😇 can’t express my feeelings & happiness ♥️part 1/1 pic.twitter.com/cV82qviJGE

— Atika Mirza (@atika_mirza) February 5, 2020

Asad Umar found this kid to be an “inspiration” and according to him “we can all learn from him.”

We can all learn from him. MashaAllah what an inspiration https://t.co/xa9eoxdnwr

— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) February 6, 2020

What one fails to understand is the fact that how an MNA fails to see that we should be ashamed of the fact that a child has to work.

Twitterati called out Asad Umar who rooted for the kid.

People were furious that Asad Umar, “a member of the National Assembly doesn’t see anything wrong” with this child selling samosas.

The fact that a member of the National Assembly doesn’t see anything wrong here is what keeps me up at night https://t.co/WB1JlHDdJJ

— Danyal Tariq (@danyaltariq) February 7, 2020

This guy criticised Asad Umar and said that the government should be ashamed of this and should analyze “why is this happening?”

Janab we should not be still learning. Why is this happening? Shame on the government, the government and yourself are answerable for this to Allah and it will be very difficult to justify this…..

— Mohammad Asad Ansari (@MohammadAsadIqb) February 8, 2020

People were of the view that Asad Umar should offer financial support instead of appreciating child labor.

Get him into an school and support him financially instead of fake appreciation. This boy at his age must be in school and not selling stuff

— Muntazir e Mahdi (@TigerZindaHay) February 6, 2020

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Asad Umar Sahab,
With respect, we should lower our heads in shame rather than be inspired by this young boy who should be focusing on his studies, playing sports in his free time, not selling samosas to help his poor parents.
A humble request to @pid_gov to provide assistance.

— Riya (@Tweets_By_Riya) February 6, 2020

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