Push for population control in UP and Assam purely political, communal: Shashi Tharoor

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Saturday that the push for population control in the BJP-ruled states of Uttar Pradesh and Assam is "purely political and communal".

Amid a push for a population control policy by some Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday alleged the BJP's motive of raising the issue is political and aimed at targeting a "particular community". The former Union minister said the population debate is "utterly misplaced" and half a century out-of-date as a large majority of Indian states have achieved replacement levels of fertility.