'Iftar Kiya Apne?' Mumbai Woman Swaps Seat With Uber Driver To Let Him Offer Namaz

An incident brought her into the limelight when she was going home by taking an Uber ride from Mumbai airport.

Priya Singh in the cab while the driver offers namaz in the backseat (linkedin by Priya Singh)

New Delhi: Amid the communal violence in different parts of the country including the national capital Delhi, Priya Singh, co-founder of Chalo, an app that tracks public buses, has set a great example of kindness through her post in which she shows her sitting in a cab and the driver offering namaz in the backseat.

An incident brought her into the limelight when she was going home by taking an Uber ride from Mumbai airport. Priya Singh has given full details of the incident on her LinkedIn account, which is being praised everywhere on social media platforms.

Priya, sharing the incident with the Uber driver, said, the incident happened on the evening of 15 April.

“I took an Uber from the airport and after 10 min, Azaan started playing in driver's mobile...I asked him "iftar kiya apne" he replied "Haan aaj road per hi ho gaya kyuki rental duty thi" I again asked "do you want to pay namaaz" he asked "can I? We parked the car on the rode side to let him do his prayers in the back seat while I sit in the front seat,” Ms Singh said in her post.

She further wrote: “That's the kind of India my parent taught me about. P.S. We spoke in length about harmony and I expressed my wish to post this to fuel basics of humanity, on all social media platform!”