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Stop infiltration from neighbouring nations: RSS leader

By Our Special Correspondent

VIJAYAWADA, FEB. 20. Expressing concern over the "demographic imbalances" in the country, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh official spokesman, Ram Madhav, asked the Government to take steps to stop large-scale infiltration from the neighbouring countries, as it was turning out to be a threat to the sovereignty of the country. Towards this end, the Government should adopt the strategy of 3Ds - detection, deletion and deportation - against the identified illegal immigrants staying in the country, he said.

Uniform policy urged

Delivering a lecture on "Demographic changes - a menace in the making" organised by Samaalochana, a forum of thinkers, on Sunday, Mr. Madhav also asked the Government take steps to implement a uniform policy on family planning measures as the present policy incorporating a "rider" making it optional for certain communities was not serving the purpose. "The Government should make family planning mandatory, not optional, by bringing in a disincentive system if necessary to families that have more children than the prescribed limits," he said.

Explaining the "dangers" posed by demographic imbalances, he said that owing to the laws in their present form, there were more than 16 million infiltrators from Bangaldesh settled in the country, according to official records.

The situation was so acute in the North Eastern States that the Bangladeshis had become a deciding factor in at least 54 constituencies in Assam alone. The policies being implemented in the country had turned the north eastern borders as an "infiltrator-friendly" zone and the talk of "greater Bangladesh" was gradually gaining momentum.

`Vote bank' politics

Speaking about the conversions and infiltration, the RSS spokesman quoted the population figures from some of the north-eastern States where the Hindu population was gradually turning out to a minority. He blamed the "vote bank" politics being pursued by some political parties that was resulting in such a situation. "The impending threat to the demographic imbalance is an utterly secular issue but has been mired with communal connotations. The previous Government which was branded as `communal' behaved in the `most secular' manner when it came to solving problems facing the country," he said.

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