The Sangh Pariwar has a particular kind of modus operandi of doing certain things ostensibly by making public opinion before giving them a legislative structure. Be it the case of triple talaq, abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A or many other such issues. The latest entrant into this category has been population explosion that has been announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has come a long way from demographic dividend to population explosion with all affiliate organizations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pitching in that a policy must be formulated for population control and several NGOs associated with the Sangh Pariwar have been campaigning against population growth across the country.
So there is a need to understand that the PM announces any such thing only when all homework is done. There are twelve states into the country which have passed two-child policy norm for state government employees. Anyone having more than two children cannot be elected and nominated to panchayats and other local bodies’ elections or government jobs.
Jansankhya Samadhan Foundation is travelling across northern India to garner support for a two-day march to New Delhi in October. It has similar plan for southern India. A BJP Rajya Sabha member and former RSS activist, Rakesh Sinha, proposed a private member’s bill – the Population Regulation Bill, 2019 – in Parliament in July.
TAXAB, an RSS affiliate organization has been working for Welfare of Taxpayers and its finds Population Control one of the measures to deal with it. Several celebrities and eminent personalities from every segment of the society have come forward to join hand and pledge their support to the campaign headed by Manu Gaur.
Delhi BJP leader and SC lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay filed a public interest litigation in Delhi High Court in May, 2019 asking similar law for across the country alleging that the population size was the root cause of all crimes. The Sangh Pariwar is of the view that as per the last census in 2011, Hindus comprise 79.8 per cent of the population while Muslims at 14.2 per cent. The Hindu population is going down since 1947.
Proportion of Hindus had declined by 0.7 per cent while the proportion of Muslims grew by 0.8 per cent. Islam was the fastest-growing religion between 2001 and 2011 with a growth rate of 24.6 percent while Hindu growth rate was 16.8 per cent in the corresponding period.
The narrative is also created that Muslim women have been turned into a child bearing machine and with successfully passing Triple Talaq Bill, the support base of Sangh Pariwar among Muslim women has grown substantially. This will help them convince that it is equally exploitative to them.
