RSS joint general secretary Dr Krishna Gopal has spent well over a decade in the North East. The full-time pracharak from Mathura was thus chosen to explain to the media the resolution passed by the RSS National Executive on ‘imbalance in the population growth’.

All this happened almost a year-and-a-half ago in Ranchi where the RSS top brass met for three days just before Diwali of 2015.

Since then, the BJP has registered an emphatic victory in Assam — and a resounding victory at that.

The population imbalance was also discussed in the RSS general body meet at Nagaur in 2016 and the one held last month at Coimbatore.

Perhaps taking a cue from the RSS resolution passed in Ranchi, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswasarma announced on Sunday the draft population policy for the state stipulating any person with more than two children will not be eligible for any government job.

He added that any person who gets a government job after meeting the norms will have to maintain it till end of service.

“We have suggested making all facilities like fees, transportation, books and hostel fees free for all girls. We are hoping that it will encourage girls to complete their education,” he said.

Interestingly, in the last one year, a non-descript NGO formed in 2016 has quietly started to build a campaign for a nationwide population policy. The Taxpayers Association of India has been pushing a hash tag #bharat4populationlaw on social media.

Some videos posted by the organisation detail the taxpayers’ money spent on population control “which have borne little or no result”.

The idea, it seems, is to link population control with taxpayers’ contribution to the state exchequer for government schemes and programmes.

The Assam experiment, though would be closely watched both for its implementation and reactions; a pilot project of sorts.

Source: News 18