By PTI
NEW DELHI: Organiser Weekly, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-linked magazine, has stressed the need to introduce a comprehensive national population control policy, pointing to a “demographic imbalance” emerging in certain areas of the country with “significant Muslim population growth.”
An editorial published in the magazine’s latest edition also flagged concerns over “regional imbalances” in terms of population and pitched for policy intervention, saying states from the west and south were doing “relatively better” in implementing population control measures but they “fear losing a few seats” in Parliament if the base population was changed after the Census.
“Despite stabilising the population at the national level, it is not the same in all religions and regions. There is a significant Muslim population growth in certain areas, especially bordering districts,” the editorial noted.
Frontier states such as West Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Uttarakhand are witnessing “unnatural” population growth due to “illegal migration” across the borders, it claimed.
“In a democracy, when numbers are critical regarding representation and demography decides the destiny, we must be even more cautious of this trend,” the editorial said.
“Politicians like Rahul Gandhi can afford to insult Hindu sentiments now and then. (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata (Banerjee) can play the blatant Muslim card even to accept the atrocities on women by the Islamists, and Dravidian parties can take pride in abusing Sanatan Dharma only because of their confidence in the consolidation of the so-called minority vote bank developed with the population imbalance,” it charged.
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