All Indians should have three children, says RSS chief

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that all citizens of the country should have three children.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

“This is what doctors have said,” Bhagwat said during the centenary celebrations of the RSS. “Our country’s population recommends a birth rate of 2.1, which is fine as an average, but you can never have 0.1 of a child. In math, 2.1 becomes 2, but when it comes to births, after two, it has to be three.”

Bhagwat added that “there is also a concern regarding the population imbalance”. “To ensure that the population is under control and also sufficient, there should be three children,” said the RSS chief.

Bhagwat had also expressed concern about India’s falling fertility rate in December and urged couples to have at least three children to prevent population decline.

“According to population science, when the population growth is below 2.1 [total fertility rate], a society perishes on its own,” Bhagwat said at an event in Nagpur. “Nobody destroys it. It no longer exists anywhere in the world. Therefore, it should not come below 2.1 at any cost.”

The “total fertility rate” refers to the average number of children a woman from a country will give birth to throughout...

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