Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi on Wednesday mentioned RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks on inhabitants management coverage had been “balanced” as he didn’t level fingers at a selected group.
Quraishi, who has busted many myths associated to Muslim inhabitants numbers in his e book “The Inhabitants Delusion: Islam, Household Planning and Politics in India”, mentioned Bhagwat is rightly of the view that household planning have to be adopted by all sections of the Indian society.
Talking on the annual RSS Dussehra rally on the Reshimbagh Floor in Nagpur, Bhagwat mentioned India ought to body a properly thought out, complete inhabitants management coverage relevant to all social teams equally and flagged the difficulty of demographic “imbalance”.
Quraishi mentioned the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sarsanghchalak’s Vijayadashami speech is being scrutinised very intently with media’s concentrate on his references to the inhabitants “Individuals are referring to my e book ‘Inhabitants Delusion – Islam, Household Planning and Politics in India’ which I had a possibility to current to Mr. Bhagwaat only recently the place I briefly talked about its focal factors,” Quraishi informed PTI.
It was important that the RSS chief heard me out fastidiously, he mentioned.
“I believe Mr. Bhagwat’s speech was fairly complete and balanced. For one, he didn’t level fingers at a selected group. He talked about each the size of inhabitants debate – a burden or an asset,” the previous bureaucrat mentioned.
Bhagwat highlighted the components that affect inhabitants behaviour, Quraishi mentioned and identified that the RSS chief, in his remarks, mentioned the variety of youngsters is linked with maternal well being, training, monetary standing and particular person want.
Bhagwat mentioned the inhabitants coverage needs to be formulated contemplating all these components mindfully, Quraishi famous.
He additionally pointed to Bhagwat’s remarks that inhabitants imbalances result in adjustments in geographical boundaries.
The RSS chief talked about East Timor, South Sudan and Kosovo on this context, Quraishi mentioned.
Referring to Bhagwat’s remarks that inhabitants management and faith primarily based inhabitants stability is a vital topic that may now not be ignored, Quraishi mentioned the very fact is that it was by no means ignored.
Within the final seven a long time each evaluation of inhabitants coverage has talked about pockets of poor household planning efficiency, primarily of Muslims, although no particular measures had been urged or taken to beat the resistance among the many group, he mentioned.
Nonetheless, Muslim group has more and more adopted household planning on account of which the hole within the inhabitants development which was larger than all different communities has come down drastically, Quraishi mentioned.
The hole in Complete Fertility Fee (TFR) between Hindus and Muslims which was 1.1 within the first Nationwide Household Well being Survey ( NFHS) 1991-92, now stands at 0.3 in NFHS 5, 2022, he mentioned.
“It’s because Muslims have adopted household planning a lot quicker than the Hindus. Even the present hole would have levelled off had the unmet want of the Muslims which stands at 12 per cent, the best amongst all communities, had been met on precedence,” the previous chief election commissioner mentioned.
“There may be ample proof to point out that Muslims need to undertake family-planning very proactively, if solely the companies might attain them quicker,” he argued.
“In his speech, Mr Bhagwat is rightly of the view that household planning have to be adopted by all sections of the Indian society for which the figuring out components like literacy, earnings and repair supply are essential,” he mentioned.
Quraishi was among the many Muslim intellectuals who had met Bhagwat lately for strengthening communal concord.
Bhagwat had lately met Quraishi, Delhi’s former lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung, former Aligarh Muslim College vice chancellor Zameer Uddin Shah, former MP Shahid Siddiqui in addition to businessman Saeed Shervani.
Through the assembly, Bhagwat had reportedly raised the difficulty of the utilization of the phrase “kafir” for Hindus, which he mentioned doesn’t ship out a great message. The group of Muslim intellectuals, on their half, objected to some right-wing activists calling Muslims “jihadi” and “Pakistanis”.
Additionally they reportedly informed Bhagwat that the true intent behind the phrase ‘kafir’ was one thing totally different however it’s now getting used as an abuse’ in some quarters.
The RSS chief, it’s learnt, acknowledged the views of the intellectuals and underscored that the “DNA of all Hindus and Muslims are identical”.