Thanking people who congratulated him on winning the Dutch elections, he wrote on X that he received several messages from India after his party won most seats in the Netherlands elections.

“Many kind messages came from #India: i’ll always support Hindus who are attacked or threatened to be killed or prosecuted in Bangladesh, Pakistan only for being Hindu,” he wrote in a post on X.

Wilders and his Freedom Party (PVV) beat all predictions on November 22 night by winning 37 seats out of 150 in the Dutch parliament, well ahead of a Labour/Green combination and the outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservatives.

Meanwhile, Dutch Muslims expressed shock at the election win of Wilders, who has previously called for mosques and the Holy Quran to be banned in the Netherlands.

“These election results are shocking for Dutch Muslims. We did not expect such a party with a programme that is against the basic principles of the rule of law to be so big,” said Muhsin Koktas of Muslim organisation CMO.

Muslims make up around 5% of the Dutch population of almost 18 million people.