Rajasthan Minister Babulal Kharadi asks people to have more kids; says PM Modi will build houses for them

Rajasthan Minister Babulal Kharadi has asked people to have more children, saying there should be no problem as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will build houses for them.

Rajasthan Minister Babulal Kharadi has asked people to have more children, saying there should be no problem as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will build houses for them.

Mr. Kharadi, the Tribal Area Development Minister in the desert State, said it is a dream of the Prime Minister that no one will go to sleep hungry and without a roof over their head.

"It is a dream of the Prime Minister that no one should sleep hungry and without a roof over their head. You give birth to lots of children. Pradhan mantriji will build your houses, then what is the problem?" Mr. Kharadi asked while addressing a public meeting in Udaipur on January 9.

Mr. Kharadi has eight children — four sons and as many daughters — from two wives. The entire family lives in Neechla Thala village, about three kilometres from Kotda tehsil of Udaipur.

Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma shared the dais with the Tribal Area Development Minister on the occasion. The stage was set up for a "Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra camp" in Udaipur's Nai village.

As Mr. Kharadi made the statement, those in the audience burst out laughing and the people's representatives present on the occasion were seen looking at each other.