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: Population control law will be introduced soon, says Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel #IndiaNEWS Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Tuesday said that India will soon have a law for population

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Population control law will be introduced soon, says Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel #IndiaNEWS
Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel on Tuesday said that India will soon have a law for population control, PTI reported. The food processing minister made the statement while speaking to reporters at an event in Raipur.Over the years, BJP leaders have been pushing for laws on population control. Their actions are based on the Hindutva narrative that Muslims produce more children as a deliberate plan to gain a majority, and capture political power in the country. However, government data show that the fertility rate among Muslims has gradually declined over the years and is not alarmingly more than that of other communities in India.Patel himself had introduced a private member’s Bill on population control in 2016. The Bill contained a provision to deny welfare benefits to those with a third child. He also proposed that government permission be made mandatory for giving birth to a third child. The party’s Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha introduced the Population Regulation Bill, 2019 in July 2019 proposing several benefits such as housing subsidies, income tax rebates, travel subsidies, health insurance benefits and others for those families with two children where either spouse has undergone sterilisation.Since 2021, the BJP-led Assam government barred citizens from government jobs if they had more than two children.Since Independence, laws on a two-child policy have...Read more


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