Bihar: Union minister Giriraj Singh makes fresh pitch for stringent population law

BEGUSARAI: Union minister and Begusarai MP Giriraj Singh on Monday made a fresh pitch for a uniform and stringent law to control the population growth in the country.
Comparing the pace of population growth to the ever expanding mouth of ‘Sursa’, a female demon character in the Ramayana, Giriraj, in a video massage on the occasion of World Population Day, said the population of India would surpass China, the most populated country, in the next two years."China had lesser GDP growth rate as well as faster birth rate when it enacted the population control law. However, the trend stands reverse now," he rued.
He said, "With 30 births per minute, our country adds two crore additional people to its population every year, which incidentally is the total population of countries like Australia and Israel. So, a stringent population control law seems the only option, if the country has to keep up the pace of development in order to reach among the countries in the top bracket with limited resources at its hand."
Giriraj said, "Let’s start a campaign from Sadak (road) to Sansad (parliament) to achieve this purpose." He asked people not to see processing of such a law through the glasses of religion or politics.
"There must be a uniform law for all in the country,” he said.
Giriraj has been strongly advocating for a stringent population control law for the last few years. However, his political opponents dub it only as rhetoric to raise the bogey of exponential rise in the Muslim population in the country. Fringe elements in the BJP accuse the minority community for procreation with a view to change the demography of the country.