India: Campaign against family planning

Sena offers cash to Hindu families with 10 or more children

Lucknow: Reporter ;  The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Shiv Sena, an alliance partner of NDA government, would offer Rs 21,000 in cash to each Hindu family having 10 or more children. This, the Shiv Sena said, is an effort to counter the “growing influence of other communities”. Shiv Sena’s state president Anil Singh told The Sunday Express that the district units have been directed to identify such families.The party would hold a programme in November-end to reward these families along with a certificate with the message:“For increasing population of Hindus in the interest of the nation.” The party would also launch an agitation from Nov.1 against family planning by Hindus. Party workers will lock government medical health centres across the state as part of the agitation. Singh alleged only Hindus were going for vasectomies and tubectomies while other communities were avoiding it to increase their population.IndianExpress