It is beyond understanding why pseudo-secularists in the country always sense anti-minority stand in every bold initiative of some state-government for overall welfare of the people. Family-planning programme in India is in force in the country for last so many decades with Congress or UPA governments in power most of the time both at the centre and in states. But now when Assam government has initiated a practical approach in this regard through its decision to give government-jobs only to persons with upto two children, voice is being unnecessarily raised it to be an anti-minority step. Rather such steps which also include providing employment-generating government-schemes to people having adopted two-child norm, should be adopted by the central government at national level. Even two-child norm decided to be extended for poll-contestants in Assam for elections to local bodies, should be applicable even for elections to Lok Sabha and state-assemblies.
In fact having large families in certain communities is a big reason for illiteracy and backwardness for people of such communities. But leaders of such communities never want to prosper their communities by adopting planned-family norms, only to increase their vote-bank. Fortunately enough, people of such communities have started realizing the real motive of their community-leaders, and resistance to government-steps towards steps taken in larger national and public interest have lost momentum like observed in case of triple talaque.
MADHU AGRAWAL