• About Us
  • Our Team
  • Advertising
  • Careers
  • Contact
Monday, June 2, 2025
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
Navjeevan Express
Advertisement
  • Gujarat
    • Ahmedabad
    • Vadodara
    • Surat
    • Rajkot
    • Saurashtra
    • Kutch
    • Central Gujarat
    • South Gujarat
  • National
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Maharashtra
    • Pondicherry
    • Tamil Nadu
    • OTHER STATES
  • Politics
  • Business
    • Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Hockey
    • Football
    • Badminton
    • Other Sports
  • Entertainment
    • Arts and Culture
    • Theatre
    • Cinema
    • Photos
    • Videos
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Health & Environment
    • Food and Beverages
    • Spirituality
    • Tourism and Travel
  • World
  • More
    • Science and Technology
    • Legal
    • Opinion
    • Student’s Corner
    • Youth
Navjeevan Express
  • Gujarat
    • Ahmedabad
    • Vadodara
    • Surat
    • Rajkot
    • Saurashtra
    • Kutch
    • Central Gujarat
    • South Gujarat
  • National
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Maharashtra
    • Pondicherry
    • Tamil Nadu
    • OTHER STATES
  • Politics
  • Business
    • Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Hockey
    • Football
    • Badminton
    • Other Sports
  • Entertainment
    • Arts and Culture
    • Theatre
    • Cinema
    • Photos
    • Videos
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Health & Environment
    • Food and Beverages
    • Spirituality
    • Tourism and Travel
  • World
  • More
    • Science and Technology
    • Legal
    • Opinion
    • Student’s Corner
    • Youth
No Result
View All Result
Navjeevan Express
No Result
View All Result
ADVERTISEMENT
Home National Gujarat Ahmedabad

To ensure development, Union minister Athawale bats for one-child norm; downplays atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat

Asked about several instances of Dalits facing intimidation for sporting moustache or riding a horse being reported in Gujarat, Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader from Maharashtra, said he will raise the issue with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani

by NavJeevan
4 years ago
in Ahmedabad, Breaking News, National
Reading Time: 3 mins read
0
0
To ensure development, Union minister Athawale bats for one-child norm; downplays atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat

Union Social Justice Minister Ramdas Athawale addressing reporters in Ahmedabad on Saturday. PHOTO: PIB

ADVERTISEMENT

NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, SEP 4

Union Social Justice Minister Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said his party supports one-child policy as the population growth in the country needs to be controlled for ensuring development.

  • Scheme to provide Rs 40,000 each to some 60,000 scavengers in the country is in the offing to end manual scavenging
  • The Constitution gives people the right to do what they like, but nobody can force any person to covert

Asked about a recent remark of Gujarat deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel that people would be able to talk about Constitution and secularism only so long as Hindus are in majority, he said there was no possibility of Hindu population dwindling.

Nobody can force any person to covert

Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, #RamdasAthawale (@RamdasAthawale)-led Republican Party of India (RPI) said it will put up a proposal before PM #NarendraModi soon to bring a law on 'One family, one child' to check the increasing population of the country. pic.twitter.com/Sg9fx3qFHY

— IANS (@ians_india) September 4, 2021

“I do not think there is any question of Hindu population declining. Hindus remain Hindu and Muslims remain Muslim. Hardly one or two Hindus or Muslims convert. The Constitution gives people the right to do what they like, but nobody can force any person to covert,” Athawale said, speaking to reporters here.

There would not be much change in the proportion of Hindus and Muslims in the population, he said, adding that “it is not the case that the population of Muslims has risen sharply in all these years”.

“There is a need to control the population for the development of the country, irrespective of whether it is the population of Hindus or Muslims,” said the Union minister, who heads the Republican Party of India (Athawale group), a constituent of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

“If we adopt one family, one child (policy), we would be able to reduce population. For now we have ”hum do, hamare do”….Our party’s stand is that to reduce population, there should be a law for ”hum do, hamara ek, (one family, one child),” Athawale said.

He will take up this issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he added.

Nitin Patel had recently said at a public event that “those talking about the Constitution, laws, secularism will continue to talk only as long as Hindus are in majority in this country… (if) the number of Hindus decreases, and (number of) people of another religion increase, there will be no courts, Lok Sabha, Constitution, secularism, they will all vanish in thin air.”

Atrocities against Dalits still prevail in the nation

Asked about several instances of Dalits facing intimidation for sporting moustache or riding a horse being reported in Gujarat, Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader from Maharashtra, said he will raise the issue with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.

“It is true that the caste system continues to exist not only in Gujarat, but across the country. From the point of view of law it has ended, but it continues to exist in the minds of people,” he said.

He will ask Rupani to take special measures for the protection of Dalits, he added.

Athawale also opined that reservation should be for those whose annual income is below Rs 8 lakh.

The BJP will win in four out of five states – Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Goa – where Assembly elections are due in coming months, the RPI chief said, making exception for Punjab where the saffron party’s alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal has ended.

“RPI will support the BJP in all these four states,” he added.

His ministry was working towards ending manual scavenging through a scheme to provide Rs 40,000 each to some 60,000 scavengers in the country, he informed.

Tags: against Dalits in GujaratAthawale bats fordownplays atrocitiesone-child normUnion Minister
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Gujarat govt plans to rope in NRGs and undertake Rs 1,000 cr worth of projects under ‘Vatan Prem Yojana’ by next Dec

Next Post

BJP to commence 20-day ‘Seva and Samarpan’ campaign on Sept 17 to mark Modi’s 2 decades in public service

NavJeevan

NavJeevan

Next Post
Narayanasamy-led Cong govt in Puducherry was a disaster for the UT, says Modi

BJP to commence 20-day ‘Seva and Samarpan’ campaign on Sept 17 to mark Modi’s 2 decades in public service

To ensure development, Union minister Athawale bats for one-child norm; downplays atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat

Cast(e) vote: Patidars cannot be included in OBC category but can have separate quota, says Athawale

ADVERTISEMENT

Recommended

2 coop bank staff held for replacing jewels pledged by customers with coverings in Puducherry

2 coop bank staff held for replacing jewels pledged by customers with coverings in Puducherry

3 years ago
CBSE issues Cyber Safety Lessons for Teens; cautions on revenge porn, limits in online friendships

CBSE issues Cyber Safety Lessons for Teens; cautions on revenge porn, limits in online friendships

5 years ago
ADVERTISEMENT

Recent Posts

  • Lt Gen Dinesh Singh Rana takes over as Commander-in-Chief of Andaman & Nicobar Command
  • PKL Auction 12: Adani Sportsline’s Gujarat Giants take giant strides with big buys
  • Tata Power Mundra’s E-Vidya empowers 3K+ students with hands-on STEM, Digital Literacy

Category

Select Category

    Contact Us

    Email:
    ne.gowri1964@gmail.com

    Phone:
    9643255068

    Live Visitors

    • About Us
    • Our Team
    • Advertising
    • Careers
    • Contact

    © 2021 all right reserved by Navjeevanexpress.com. Consulted by MediaHives.com

    No Result
    View All Result
    • Gujarat
      • Ahmedabad
      • Vadodara
      • Surat
      • Rajkot
      • Saurashtra
      • Kutch
      • Central Gujarat
      • South Gujarat
    • National
      • Andhra Pradesh
      • Rajasthan
      • Maharashtra
      • Pondicherry
      • Tamil Nadu
      • OTHER STATES
    • Politics
    • Business
      • Companies
      • Personal Finance
    • Sports
      • Cricket
      • Hockey
      • Football
      • Badminton
      • Other Sports
    • Entertainment
      • Arts and Culture
      • Theatre
      • Cinema
      • Photos
      • Videos
    • Lifestyle
      • Fashion
      • Health & Environment
      • Food and Beverages
      • Spirituality
      • Tourism and Travel
    • World
    • More
      • Science and Technology
      • Legal
      • Opinion
      • Student’s Corner
      • Youth

    © 2021 all right reserved by Navjeevanexpress.com. Consulted by MediaHives.com

    Welcome Back!

    Login to your account below

    Forgotten Password?

    Retrieve your password

    Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

    Log In