Tribune press service
Vibha Sharma
New Delhi, October 19
Echoing the narrative established by sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat in his speech at Vijayadashmi, the RSS on Wednesday again stressed the need for evolving population control policy in the country and strict implementation of existing laws to prevent conversion. religious in the country.
“Desh main sab par lagu hone wali jansankhya niti bane (there should be one population policy applicable to all in the country),” sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale said during a media briefing at the end of the four-day meeting of the Akhil Bhartiya Karyakari Mandal in Prayagraj. .
The senior RSS official said the population was a concern, especially given the country’s limited resources. “Everyone needs to look into it and implement a population control policy. There is a need to create awareness and wake up to the question… what kind of education and health care would be provided to the people if the population continues to grow? ” he said.
Claiming that population imbalance on a religious basis has led to the division of many nations, Hosabale also said that religious conversion and migration from Bangladesh is causing “population imbalance” and called for strict enforcement of laws. anti conversion.
Sangh is trying to raise awareness on conversions, he said, adding that as a result, there has been a favorable outcome from ‘Ghar Wapsi’.
“India also faced a divide because of this. Demographic balance based on religion was an important topic that could no longer be ignored,” he said.
Hosabale also claimed that after conversion, infiltration was the second cause of “demographic imbalance”.
“The population imbalance caused by the infiltration of Bangladesh has been seen in the northern districts of Bihar, including Purnia and Katihar, and other states,” he said.
The Sangh meeting also took stock of the expansion of organizational work and held brainstorming sessions on women’s empowerment, minority outreach and the use of mother tongue in education. “We plan to have a ‘shakha’ in every division of the country by 2024. We have already reached 99% of the goal. There are also shakhas in Kerala,” he said.
The ideological source of the BJP will reach its 100th birthday in 2025.
In his Vijayadashami speech, considered the guiding principle of ‘swayamsewaks’, Bhagwat spoke at length about population control, empowerment of women, social harmony and the promotion of education in the mother tongue. . Stating that demographic balance based on religion can no longer be ignored, Bhagwat said that after 75 years of independence, India needs a population control policy applicable to all for the next 50 years to make the population an “asset” for the country.
“Population control and demographic balance based on religion is an important topic that can no longer be ignored,” he said.
Notably, RSS in the past had also passed resolutions on population control policy, urging the government to work on effective laws on conversion, NRC, and infiltration control.