Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma asks Hindu couples living in the state to have more than one kid

Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asked Hindu couples living in to give birth to more than one Child. Talking to media persons on Tuesday he said, “In religious minority dominated areas, the ratio of giving birth to child is more. In Hindus the ratio of giving birth to child is coming down. There is a difference.”

He added, “That is why we are urging Hindu people not to stop at one child and give birth to at least two. Those who can, even have three children. We ask the Muslim people not to give birth to seven to eight while we urge the Hindus to have more children. Otherwise there will be no one to look after the house of Hindus.”

On December 27, Sarma had said that the population of Bangladeshi origin Miya Muslims will be 40 percent in the 2027 census.


The Chief Minister said this while addressing the two-day state executive meeting of the BJP on Saturday said nowhere in the world there is a state where the number of indigenous people is going below 60 percent and the number of Bangladeshi origin Muslims are going above 40 percent gradually.

“When I started politics from the All-Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) the number of Bangladeshi origin Mia Muslims was 21 percent. Their population rose to 31 percent in the 2011 census and now their population is going to be above 40 percent. Days are not far when the future generation of Assamese people will see their population going below 35 percent,”.

He added, “They (Bangladesh) often say that northeast India should be cut off and annexed to Bangladesh. They do not need to fight a war to take northeast India. It will automatically go to them once their population crosses 50 percent.”

Saying that even districts like Dibrugarh and Tinsukia have fallen victim to this demographic change. He said he was shocked to see that the highest number of applications of Muslims seeking to procure lands belonging to Hindu is in Tinsukia.

Sarma said that recently a Congress spokesperson had demanded that 48 assembly seats should be reserved for Muslims and there is no opposition by the Congress. “The BJP demands reserving seats for Assamese people-irrespective of Hindus and Muslims. But Congress demands reservation of seats for Muslims. The Congress is yet to expel him, they can’t because the whole ecosystem of Congress is dependent on those people”.

He said that the state is currently having a conflict between two civilizations—one Sanatani civilization which is inclusive civilization and a new civilization of these growing people of Bangladeshi origin Miya Muslims.

The major difference between these two civilizations is that unlike Sanatani civilization the new civilization is exclusive—for them religion is above nation. “The recent development in Bangladesh is a clear indication of what is going to happen in Assam after another 20 years. In lower Assam and Central Assam, every day at least one Hindu girl is becoming a victim of Love Jihad. Every day one Assamese or Hindu person is selling his land to Muslims and migrating to town areas.”

He said Congress encouraged the infiltration of Bangladeshi origin Muslims in Assam for their appeasement politics and said that it is due to this weak policies of the Congress government in Assam that the number of these Bangladeshi origin Miya Muslims have grown from 31 percent in 2011 census.

Bengali speaking Muslims are often referred as Miya Muslims. Muslims comprise 34% of the 3.12 crore population of Assam, of which 4% are indigenous Assamese Muslims and the remaining mostly Bengali-speaking Muslims.