Population imbalance results in alteration of geographical borders, India wants efficient inhabitants management coverage: RSS

Dattatreya Hosabale, common secretary of the RSS, expressed concern about India’s inhabitants imbalance on Wednesday, stressing the significance of strict enforcement of anti-conversion legal guidelines and the formulation of a uniform inhabitants coverage.

The RSS common secretary, talking to reporters after a four-day Akhil Bhartiya Karyakari Mandal assembly of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, mentioned the group is working to lift consciousness about spiritual conversions. Hosabale additionally acknowledged that RSS led Ghar Wapsi drive has given beneficial outcomes in bringing again individuals who transformed to different faiths like Islam and Christianity.

The RSS chief raised concern over reducing inhabitants of Hindus and added that India must have a uniform inhabitants coverage.

“Due to religious conversions, the Hindu population has dwindled. Trespassing in certain parts of the country has exacerbated the problem, which must be addressed. Thus, India should have a population policy that has been thoroughly thought out and is equally applicable to all communities,” he mentioned on the ultimate day of the RSS working committee assembly.

The RSS chief warned that inhabitants imbalance has previously led to partition in lots of international locations, together with India. He additionally identified that after conversions, infiltration is the second largest purpose behind inhabitants imbalance. “Population imbalance leads to alteration of geographical boundaries. Religious conversions and migration from other countries need to be stopped,” he asserted.

“Population imbalance caused by Bangladeshi infiltration has been observed in districts of north Bihar, including Purnia and Katihar, as well as in other states,” Dattatreya Hosabale added.

Making an oblique reference to the anti-conversion legal guidelines in states like Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, Hosabale emphasised that the present legal guidelines want correct implementation because the inhabitants of Hindus is declining in lots of states owing to non secular conversion. He alleged that “conspiracies are being hatched in various parts of the country for religious conversions.”

Hosabale additionally asserted that the Sangh treats everybody equally as residents of India and has been striving to attach with all communities and tribes within the northeast. “It is due to the efforts of the RSS in the direction of ‘Swabhiman Jagran’ that the sensation of ‘Main Bhi Hindu Hoon’ (I too, am a Hindu) has grown within the folks of the northeast. 

“Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat has visited the northeastern states of Meghalaya and Manipur and instilled a sense of Hindu pride in the tribal communities there,” Hosabale mentioned, including that “the tribal community has begun inviting the Sarsanghchalak there,” he added.

Notably, the RSS chief, referring to the committee fashioned by former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan to look at whether or not communities that transformed to different religions ought to be granted Scheduled Caste standing, acknowledged that those that convert to different religions for any purpose shouldn’t be eligible for reservation advantages.

According to Hosabale, the assembly additionally mentioned the elevated participation of ladies in social actions of the Hindu group. “Women are entering every sector. Their influence on social work decision-making must increase as well,” he acknowledged.

According to the RSS, 372 Sangh staff attended the assembly. Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS chief, additionally attended the assembly in Prayagraj from October 16 to 19. The RSS chief acknowledged that over 3,000 younger folks have joined the Sangh within the final two years, and the variety of RSS “shakhas” has elevated from 54,382 to 61,045 in a single 12 months.

“More than 130,000 people have joined the Sangh through the “Join RSS” platform, which was launched in 2010-11,” he mentioned. The RSS will mark its centenary in 2025.