Politics
BJP MP Gajendra Singh Patel urges 5 children
Hindustan Times··4 Oct
BJP leader Gajendra Singh Patel urged Hindu youth to marry early and have five children each. The Khargone-Barwani MP said the birth rate among Sanatanis is 1.9. He put another community's rate at 2.9. Patel said people now marry at 30, 35 or 37 and often have one child. He cited the 2011 Census in the speech.
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What It Means For You
- The remarks came from a Lok Sabha MP addressing a public event on Friday night, PTI reported.
- Patel framed delayed marriage and smaller families as the reason for the 1.9 figure he cited.
- Local Congress MLA Rajan Mandloi represents the area Patel referenced in the same speech.
What's Happening
- Patel said earlier generations married at 20, 21 or 22 and had four to seven children.
- He claimed that of four children born now, one was Hindu and three were from the other community.
- He said he was not afraid to make the remarks because he was a Sanatani.
Figures he put on the record
- He put one community's birth rate at 1.9 percent and the other's at 2.9 percent.
- He pointed to the period between 1947 and 1967 as a different population pattern.
- He also cited the 2011 Census while describing shares since Independence.
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