Mumbai: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that he will not support any law that mandates two children only policy as it would not benefit the country.
“We should not repeat the mistakes of China. I will not support any law that mandates two children only policy as it would not benefit the country,” Owaisi said to news agency ANI.
A few days ago, Owaisi had said that Muslims are using contraception the most in response to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s remark on ‘population imbalance’.
Owaisi had said, “His own health minister had said that no law is needed for population control in the country. Most of the contraception is being used by Muslims.”
The controversy started after Yogi Adityanath’s remarks on population growth, where he said that it should not happen that some communities is high and, for that, other communities, who are the ‘original natives’, have to stabilise their population through awareness or enforcement.
Two children policy is a contentious issue which came into the discourse on several occasions before.
Many states including Assam, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, have a provision that if a person has more than two children, they can’t contest in local body elections.
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