VHP: Hindus need more kids to maintain demographic balance

Rai was reluctant to give any figures about the number of people the VHP had been able to convert under the ‘ghar wapsi’ programme.

While maintaining that it was not a question of a couple’s choice, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international secretary general Champat Rai said here on Friday that Hindus needed more children to ensure that there was no imbalance in India’s demographic profile.

“You don’t have the choice to even commit a suicide,” Rai argued to drive his point home. Rai reminded reporters that “the country would not have been partitioned, but for demography.”

When a reporter drew his attention to a recent study which had said that the Muslim community in India would overtake the Muslim population (largest in the world) of Indonesia in 2050, he said, “It would be so if you people (Hindus) would be content with one child each.”

Rai was reluctant to give any figures about the number of people the VHP had been able to convert under the “ghar wapsi” programme, but made it clear that the organisation had been founded precisely for this very purpose. “Our contention to Muslims is very simple: You adopted a different mode of worship, but how could you be opposed to your Hindu forefathers?” he asked. Regarding the quantification of conversions, he said, “I only want to cite the examples of Beawar area in Ajmer and Banswara district of Rajasthan, where district collectors needed a clearence from the church for declaring a holiday, but now (due to VHP ghar wapsi programmes), the church influence has been minimised.”

The VHP leader called for “an economic boycott of Bangladeshi infiltrators.” “Stop employing them (unse kaam lena band karein),” he said, insisting that, “it isn’t just people coming illegally from across the border, also drugs and arms.”

Source:: Indian Express