Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, where he emphasised the need to tackle population explosion in India, ally Shiv Sena targeted the Muslim community in its mouthpiece, Saamana on Friday, 16 August.
In the editorial, the Sena wrote, “There’s a big section of the society that is not concerned about the size of the family and population explosion, and its ill-effects,” reported Hindustan Times. It further reportedly added,
“Here, some fanatical Muslims are not ready to come out of the mindset of ‘Hum Do, Humare Pachhis’. In this scenario, even when the Prime Minister says that keeping a small family is nationalism, will the country’s Muslims learn from it?”