Population rising rapidly in Bihar's Muslim-dominated districts : Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal
Patna, Sep 7: Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal Wednesday stirred the hornets' nest by claiming that population growth rate is the "highest in the world" in two districts of the state partly due to the alleged high rate of influx of Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Jaiswal identified Kishanganj and Araria as the two districts where, he said, the rate of population growth was matched only by "tribal areas of Pakistan and parts of Ethiopia".
According to the 2011 census, Kishanganj has a 67 per cent Muslim population, the highest in any Bihar district, followed by adjoining Araria where the figure is 43 per cent.
The BJP leader had made the remarks in Araria, where he was galvanizing support for Union Home Minister Amit Shah's rally at nearby Purnea later this month.
Later when approached here by journalists, Jaiswal said "I had stated a fact which has nothing to do with the union home minister's tour on September 23-24".
Shah's proposed visit to Bihar will be his first since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's volte face stripped BJP of power. Kumar's JD(U) has been apprehensive that the tour will be capitalized for communal polarisation.
Jaiswal, however, maintained that he was insisting on the need for "population stabilization" which, he said, has been achieved in West Bengal.
The BJP leader avoided the hardline stance of blaming high population growth on alleged aversion of Muslims towards family planning. He, however, went on to add "one reason behind the high population growth in Araria and Kishanganj is the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants - a fact people are not willing to acknowledge".
He also did not demand a law to curb population growth, like party colleagues like Union Minister Giriraj Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, but said there was need to "incentivise those who produce less children".
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SC cancels bail to wrestler Sushil Kumar in murder case, orders surrender in a week
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled bail to Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar in the murder case of former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankar at the Chhatrasal Stadium in the national capital.
A bench of justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra set aside the March 4 order of the Delhi High Court granting bail to the wrestler.
The wrestler has been asked to surrender within a week.
The top court's order came on an appeal filed by Ashok Dhankar, father of Sagar Dhankar, challenging the order passed by the Delhi High Court granting bail to Kumar.
Kumar and others are accused of fatally assaulting Sagar Dhankar in May 2021 over an alleged property dispute.
Two of Sagar Dhankar's friends were also injured in the assault.
According to the postmortem report, the victim suffered cerebral damage from the impact of a blunt object.
Kumar was arrested in May 2021 and a sessions court had granted him a week's interim bail for his knee surgery on July 19, 2023.
The trial court in October 2022 framed IPC charges, including murder, criminal conspiracy, intimidation and rioting with a deadly weapon against Kumar aside from the Arms Act, among others.
The trial court noted that after being abducted and brought to the stadium, Sagar Dhankar was severely assaulted by several accused persons with baseball and hockey sticks.
