Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 5: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Wednesday that India needs a government policy for population control.
He said “religion-based imbalance and forced conversions to raise the specter of the country breaking apart.”
Speaking at the annual Dussehra rally of the RSS, the mentor body of the ruling BJP, he cited East Timor, Kosovo and South Sudan as examples of “new countries that emerged because of religious community-based imbalances”.
“Along with population control, population balance on religious basis is also a matter of importance which cannot be ignored,” he said in his speech, in Hindi.
“Population require resource, or it becomes a burden. There is a view that population can be an asset. We need to work on a policy keeping both aspects in mind,” he added.
He said women’s health must be “certainly kept in mind” in any policy on childbearing. Today’s Dussehra rally also happened to be the first time the RSS invited a woman as chief guest mountaineer Santosh Yadav for its annual event.
