VHP No to Birth control - Produce 4 kids at least - 2 for Family 2 'Hindu Cause'

Indian Express

Ayodhya, October 21 : The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to launch a campaign against family planning and will use a book to urge Hindus to ensure that they produce at least four male children —”two for the family and two for the Hindu cause”.

To spread its new strategy among the Hindu masses, the VHP will circulate a book Bharat mein Hindu Bahumat (Hindu majority in India). About 10,000 copies of this book have been collected in Karsewak Puram, the local headquarters of VHP here, said Rama Patnaik, a VHP full-timer.

However, senior VHP leaders are not ready to disclose much on the issue. “It is a good move by the VHP, as the family planning system introduced in India by the Congress is anti-religious,” said Mahant Ram Kripal. “Our religious books do not give permission to control births,” he added.

Publised by an Ahmedabad-based publisher, the 100-page book says that at the given rate, the population of Muslims and Christians will outnumber that of Hindus in half a century. The book asks Hindus to ensure the birth of at least four male children and prepare two of them for the cause of Hindutva. It also directs parents to teach girls to prepare themselves for this. The book claims family planning is a “Christian and Muslim strategy to make Hindus a minority in India”. In the present circumstances it will be an anti-national act by the Hindus to adopt family planning system, says the book.

Ramanand Maheshwari, a VHP leader and member of the team that will circulate the book, said: “Within a few days we will take the book to the Hindu masses. We will also give it publicity through meetings, street plays and processions.”