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| After Sakshi Maharaj, Bengal BJP Leader says 'Hindus Should Have 5 Children'
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| INDIA
, 13-January-2015
5:35:49 AM |
| Just a day after the ruling BJP sent notice to one of its parliamentarians for saying Hindus should have four children, another party leader has gone a step further. "Hindu women should have five children," Shyamal Goswami, a BJP leader in Bengal said today.
"I would like to tell all my Hindu mothers and sisters that if they don't have five children, in future there will be no balance in India. Don't misunderstand me. If my Hindu mothers and sisters don't have five children, hardly any Hindus will be left in India. To protect Hinduism and Sanatan Dharma it is necessary for all Hindus to give birth to 5 children," Mr Goswami said in Birbhum.
Last week, Sakshi Maharaj, a BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh, had made similar remarks, embarrassing the party at a time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pitching his government's agenda of reforms and an economic turnaround.
"A Hindu woman must have at least four children. Give one to the army, another to us religious leaders and teachers," the 58-year-old saffron-robed MP said at a religious gathering.
A day later, he said, "Raat gayi, baat gayi (As time passed, the matter also ended)."
After weeklong controversy over those remarks, the BJP yesterday sent a show-cause notice to Sakshi Maharaj.
He, however, today denied receiving any notice and hit out at the media, calling it the party's "internal matter."
He said, "I have just come to Delhi. If a notice was sent, my office would have received it. It is a "ghar ka mamala" (internal matter). Why is the media intruding?"
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