Assam CM On Muslim Population: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday (July 19) claimed that the Muslim population in his state is increasing by about 30 percent every 10 years and they will become a majority by 2041. He said that the population of Muslims increases by 11 lakh every 10 years. At the same time, the population of Hindu communities is increasing by only 16 percent.
CM Sarma said, “In 2011, there were 1.4 crore Muslims in Assam. By 2041, Assam will become a Muslim-majority state. This is a reality and no one can stop it.” The Chief Minister said, “Every 10 years, the Muslim population in Assam increases by 11 lakh. This is not Himanta Biswa Sarma’s data, but the data of the Indian Census. This data has been published.” Sarma said that the population of the Hindu community is increasing by about 16 percent every 10 years.
How much truth is there in CM Sarma’s figures?
According to news agency PTI, according to the 2011 census, the total Muslim population in Assam was 1.07 crore, which was 34.22 percent of the total 3.12 crore residents. There were 1.92 crore Hindus in the state, which was about 61.47 percent of the total population.
Assam government scheme
The Assam CM said that his government has taken steps to reduce the population growth of the Muslim community. The Chief Minister said, “Many people have also helped us. If the ‘Nijut Moina’ scheme is successful, girls will become doctors and engineers. Then they will not give birth (to children).”
Under this scheme, the Assam government provides a monthly honorarium of up to Rs 2,500 to girl students from class 11 to post-graduation for the next five years with the aim of preventing child marriage. He said, ‘The steps taken by our government in the last three years will give us some results, but the problem is very big.’ He also said, ‘By 2041, Assam will become a Muslim-majority state. This is a reality and no one can stop it.’
Urged Rahul Gandhi to stop Muslim population
He quipped, “Congress can play the most important role in stopping the population growth of Muslims. If Rahul Gandhi becomes the brand ambassador of population control, then this can be controlled because the community listens only to him.”
‘Two children of Muslim politicians do not give advice to others’
The BJP leader said, “Muslim political leaders themselves have two children, but they never advise villagers to limit the number of children to two.” He also said that if the previous chief ministers were “not secular” and had spoken about the population explosion like him since 1971 or 1981, the state would have got positive results.
He said, ‘If the government had taken steps for the education of Muslim girls and against child marriage, this situation would not have arisen. I cannot do any miracle in just three years. If this (Muslims becoming a majority) is postponed till 2051, then we will consider that we have done something.’
‘If you do sterilization, you can be successful’
Sarma claimed that when he was Assam’s health minister during the Congress regime, one lakh men were sterilised in 2009. “Gradually the programme was stopped. If we can continue this process, we can be quite successful. It is also not that all women want to give birth to five-eight children. There are some enabling factors that help increase the numbers,” he said.
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