Mohan Bhagwat comment on Hindu population ‘outdated’: Shiv Sena

Slamming RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comments on declining Hindu population as “outdated”, Shiv Sena on Monday asked the Narendra Modi government to implement uniform civil code to maintain “social and cultural balance”.

“Mohan Bhagwat has tried to present outdated thoughts in a modern way. His remarks will not be accepted by progressive Hindu community. Also, PM Modi would not agree that increasing Hindu population is the right way to counter growing Muslim population,” an editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamana said.

Sena also sought to know if Mr Bhagwat was discreetly trying to back the idea of Hindus having more than one spouse to boost the population of the community. “In reality, Bhagwat’s thoughts are like a web stuck on the ideals of Hindutva. Instead of this, why does he not back the uniform civil code and strict norms of family planning ” it asked.

Pointing out that the government is spending a lot of money on family planning, the Saamana editorial read, “A rise in Muslim population will undoubtedly affect the social and cultural balance of the country, but asking Hindus to have more children is no solution to the problem.”

Sena said that the only solution is to implement the uniform civil code to cap the population of all communities. “If Hindus give birth to more children, problems like hunger, unemployment and inflation will only increase,” the BJP ally said.

Responding to a question at an event in Agra recently, Bhagwat had said, “Which law says that the population of Hindus should not rise There is nothing like that. What is stopping them when population of others is rising The issue is not related to the system. It is because the social environment is like this.”