BJP's Sakshi Maharaj backs Shiv Sena: No voting rights if Muslims do not plan family
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, April 13, 2015 | UPDATED 13:50 IST
BJP MP Sakshi MaharajKnown for making controversial statements, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj did it again by demanding that a strict law on family planning be brought in for all to check the population growth. He said those who do not follow it should be stripped of their voting rights, effectively endorsing Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's controversial article in Saamana calling to disenfranchise Muslims."When Hindus go for sterilisation, Muslims should also opt for it. There should be one law for everyone. There will be no appeasement of any section in our regime," the BJP parliamentarian from Unnao in Uttar Pradesh said.
"I don't say Muslims and Christians should be sterilised. But there should be family planning and a uniform law for all. When we talk of four-child issue, there is a lot of hue and cry, and when they have 40 children from four wives no one says anything," the saffron-robed MP said on Sunday evening.
Stressing that population growth was a major challenge before the country, Sakshi said the issue has to be addressed through family planning. "There should be family planning. When the country gained independence, the population was only 30 crore. Today it is 130 crore. Who is responsible for it?" he said.
Sanjay Raut: Scrap voting rights of Muslims
Sakshi Maharaj's comments came after Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in an editorial demanded scrapping of voting rights of Muslims, saying they are used as vote bank. "Balasaheb had once said withdraw Muslims voting rights. Owaisi brothers are doing politics of Muslim votes. They are threat to the nation," wrote Raut in his party mouthpiece.
Asked about Raut's remarks, Sakshi said he had not gone through his statement. Earlier, the BJP leader had asked Hindu women to have at least four children, sparking condemnation from the opposition which alleged that the ruling party was trying to polarise the atmosphere. The BJP had distanced itself from the remarks and served him a show cause notice. Sakshi had also drawn considerable flak for describing Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a patriot and was forced to apologise in Parliament.
Owaisi hits out at Sena
Meanwhile, MIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi demanded that PM Narendra Modi must react to the kind of statements made by his partymen and ally. "PM Modi must react especially when there are two Muslim Cabinet ministers at the Centre," the MP from Hyderabad said.
"Calling us poisonous snakes and having a pathological hatred for us won't help. Shiv Sena doesn't have the guts to write about Lakhvi's release and instead writes about us," Owaisi told Headlines Today.
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