Percentage of Hindus in population fell between 1950-2015, that of minorities increased, finds study
May 09, 2024
New Delhi [India], May 9 : Share of Hindus in the population fell by 7.81 per cent between 1950 and 2015 while that of minorities increased, according to a study by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).
Reacting to this study, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said that the Muslim population grows due to these factors: natural causes, religious conversion, immigration, and polygamy.
"In the census of 1951, there were 88 per cent Hindus and 9.5 per cent Muslims while in the census of 2011, there were 79.8 per cent Hindus and 14.5 per cent Muslims...The population of SC, ST, and OBC will increase based only on natural causes. But the population of these people will grow on three factors- natural causes, religious conversion, immigration, and polygamy," Trivedi told ANI on Thursday.
Hitting out to the opposition alliance, Trivedi asked is they intend to provide benefits of reservation to Muslims whose population is increasing by taking away reservation benefits from other sections of the society.
"I want to ask the INDI alliance leaders if they want to give reservation based on population, will they go on increasing reservation on this ever-growing population? And whose reservation will they take away?" Trivedi asked.
Trivedi said that there are several states and districts where Hindus have become a minority.
"In India, there are nine states and dozens of districts in which Hindus have become a minority. This is a fact," he said.
Drawing a parallel between Rahul Gandhi's support base and the places he visited in eastern India where the Muslim population has increased, Trivedi said that the Congress is "playing a dangerous game".
"When Rahul Gandhi's Nyay Yatra began in the Northeast, he gathered maximum support in Assam's Dhubri, Barpeta, and Karimganj, and West Bengal's Malda constituencies which have seen the maximum demographic shift due to infiltration. Congress is playing a dangerous game, whose first target will be the SC, ST, and OBC reservation," he said.
