Wishesh June 2015 Online E-Magazine

Nri PROFILE
DANIEL MOOKHEY
MEMBER OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES LEGIS-
LATIVE COUNCILT
Preceded by:
INCUMBENT
Assumed office
6 May 2015
Steve Whan
PERSONAL DETAILS
Born : 1982 (age 32–33)
Blacktown, New South Wales,
Australia
Political party: Australian Labor Party
Spouse(s): Tamsin Lloyd (m. 2014)
Alma mater: University of Technology, Sydney
University of New England
Labor MLC Daniel Mookhey makes
Australian political history by swearing
on the Bhagavad Gita. Nitin Daniel
Mookhey, who is born in the year
1982 is an Australian politician.
He has been a Labor member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council
from 6th May 2015, when he was
appointed to fill a vacancy caused
by Steve Whan’s resignation. Born in
Blacktown in Western Sydney and
raised in Merrylands, to Indian migrant
parents from Punjab, Mookhey is the
first parliamentarian in the Australian
history to be sworn into the office on
the Bhagavad Gita. Daniel Mookhey​
pledged his loyalty by swearing on the
Srimad Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse
Hindu scripture whose title translates
to “SONG OF THE LORD”.
32-year-old Mookhey is from the Labor’s right wing, has worked as a management
consultant and was the 2013 federal campaign director of the Australian Council of
Trade Unions. NSW Parliament holds copies of the Bible, the Koran and the Torah,
however, Mr Mookhey brought his own copy of the text known as the Srimad Bhagavad
Gita. “It’s incredibly humbling to be the first Australian parliamentarian to swear his oath
of allegiance on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita​,” he said before the ceremony. “It was a very
28
WWW.WISHESH.COM | JUNE 2015