Rising Muslim, Christian population threatening India's identity, says RSS

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday clarified its position on reservation policy to douse political conflagration erupted as a result of a statement issued by its chief Mohan Bhagwat which incidentally threatened to derail mission Bihar campaign of the political party ideologically close to it - the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) - and exposed the Sangh to criticism from other political parties.

In an interview to The Times of India, Habib said that while it is true that communal tension existed in the past as well but people like him have reasons to be more worry now.

Joshi said the Sangh had always been constructive in its thoughts and respected everyone's sentiment. "It is compulsory for the society", Joshi said.

Stating that there is a necessity to go deeper into such incidents to find out the truth, he said that in the past also the Sangh had faced such allegations but when one went deeper into the allegations there was no truth found in such charges.

The RSS also demanded the creation of a "National Population Register" by which the illegal migrants could be identified and their illegally acquired citizen's rights should be taken away.

"If religion prevents one from opting for family planning norms, we must go by the nationalist spirit and formulate a policy keeping under consideration the available resources of the country", he said.

Claiming "higher growth" in the Muslim and Christian population, the RSS blamed this on "infiltration and conversion".

Gopal further said that in the border areas the population of Muslims had grown four-fold.

"Reservation can continue as long as it is needed in society". The recent census showed that the Muslim community had registered a moderate 0.8 per cent growth to touch 17.22 crore in the 10 year period between 2001 and 2011, up from 13.8 crore, while Hindus population showed a decline by 0.7 per cent at 96.63 crore during the period.

Specifically referring to North East, the RSS said termed the "religious imbalance" of population there as serious.

 

The resolution said the policy had supposed to achieve a "stable but healthy population" by 2045 by optimising the fertility rate to an "ideal" figure of 2.1 total fertility rate, or the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime.