BJP attempts to rattle CM Nitish Kumar by demanding population control law
India Today
After supporting the caste-based census in Bihar, the BJP is now demanding a population control law in the state. The move is being seen as an attempt to rattle the CM Nitsh Kumar.
The Bharatiya Janata Party may have supported conducting a caste-based census in Bihar during the all-party meeting on Wednesday, but it appears that the saffron party took this decision under tremendous pressure from Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Within 24 hours of supporting the census in the state, Bihar minister and BJP leader Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu raised the contentious issue of bringing up the population control law in Bihar.
Bablu has demanded that the way the issue of conducting the caste census in Bihar was expedited, similarly, the population control law should also be introduced in the state.
He said that the Bihar government is continuously doing the work of widening the road, building new schools and hospitals, but because of the rising population it was proving to be not enough.
Bablu said that in such a situation, there would be people fighting among themselves and that is why there was a dire need to enact a population control law in Bihar.
But the population control law is an issue that makes Janata Dal United uncomfortable. The BJP raising this issue after giving the green signal for the caste-based census is being seen as an attempt to rattle the Bihar CM.
When Janata Dal United's state president Umesh Kushwaha was asked about Bablu's demand for introducing the population control law, he outrightly rejected the claim, maintaining that Nitish Kumar was stressing the need to educate girls, which would ultimately lead to a control of the population.
