{"id":12425,"date":"2021-06-11T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerising.in\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:33:23","slug":"owaisi-criticize-assam-cms-population-control-appeal-flags-unequal-resource-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northeastrising.in\/test\/owaisi-criticize-assam-cms-population-control-appeal-flags-unequal-resource-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Owaisi criticize Assam CM’s ‘population control’ appeal; flags unequal resource distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guwahati, June 11: <\/strong>AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi took umbrage at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “population control”<\/strong> appeal to the minority community. Strongly refuting the notion that there is a population explosion in Assam, he claimed that this was a ploy to blame the poor and marginalized sections of the society. To buttress his point, he pointed out that Assam had already achieved a Total Fertility Rate of 2.1 which is below the national average of 2.2.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he recalled that even the Centre had opposed coercive family planning members before the Supreme Court<\/a><\/span>. Owaisi opined, “Your government should worry about skewed sex ratio due to barbaric practice of sex-selective abortions. It\u2019s projected that even in 2036 Assam\u2019s sex ratio will still be seriously skewed in favour of men. There\u2019s a clear need to fight against underlying sexist cultural ideas”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to him, the discourse on “population control”<\/strong> was premised on the notion that there are fewer resources compared to the number of people in the country. However, the Hyderabad MP stressed that the real problem was that a small part of the population was garnering a majority of India’s resources. For instance, he cited a study conducted by the Savitribai Phule Pune University, the Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies from 2015 to 2017 to highlight the unequal distribution of wealth.<\/p>\n

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Assam CM has again started talk of \u201cpopulation control\u201d. This is Hindutva-speak for blaming poor & marginalised<\/p>\n

Here are the facts @himantabiswa<\/a><\/p>\n

Assam has already achieved replacement levels of TFR 2.1. National TFR is 2.2. In simple words, there\u2019s no population explosion 1\/n<\/p>\n

— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n