Ensure headcount of Rohingyas, Bangladeshis and Muslims with 3 wives & 15-20 children: Bihar minister

Bihar cabinet minister Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu said the caste-based census should ensure a headcount of Rohingyas, Bangladeshis and Muslims with 3 wives & 15-20 children:

After the Bihar cabinet approved the decision to conduct a caste-based census in Bihar, with the backing of all the political parties, now differences have cropped up within the Bharatiya Janata Party over the modalities of headcount.

Bihar cabinet minister Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu said that in the caste-based census, Rohingyas and Bangladeshi Muslims living illegally in Bihar should also be counted. While Union Minister and BJP's firebrand leader Giriraj Singh demanded that the Rohingyas and Bangladeshi Muslims should not be included.

The state cabinet minister expressed his concern that there are people from the Muslim community who have three wives or have 15 to 20 children and want to hide this number. They do not want to be part of the headcount. Bablu demanded that every person should be counted during the caste-based census.

“There are many people living in Bihar who hide numbers when the counting starts. Many people have three wives and 15-20 children, which they do not want to count. I want every person to be counted so that it will make clear the speed with which the population of minorities has increased in Bihar," said Bablu.

Bablu argued that in the last few years, the Muslim population in Bihar has increased very rapidly and the caste-based census will give a clear picture at what speed the Muslim population is increasing in Bihar.

“The caste-based census will give a clear picture of how much the population of which community has increased, especially of minorities. Infiltrators who live in Bihar, whether they are Rohingya Muslims or Bangladeshis, and whether they are living legally or illegally, they should all be counted,” he said.