In July 2021, Uttar Pradesh announced a population policy, Draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare Bill, 2021, that was astoundingly thoughtless, even as it was demographically unnecessary. That Assam and Uttar Pradesh have joined the long list of dismal states that advocate a stringent two-child norm in population policy is only reflective of how unthinking and thoughtless our policy planners are. They perhaps reflect carefully thought-out political strategies to weaponise demography, demonise Muslims, and consummate a Hindu vote bank? These policies ignore the fact that a sustained fertility decline is visible all over the country. Indeed the rate of decline of the fertility among Muslims is greater than among Hindus.

2021 年 7 月，北方邦宣布了一项人口政策，即 2021 年北方邦人口控制、稳定和福利法案草案，尽管这在人口统计上是不必要的，但令人震惊的是，它的轻率。阿萨姆邦和北方邦加入了一长串在人口政策中提倡严格的二孩标准的令人沮丧的州，这仅反映了我们的政策规划者是多么的轻率和轻率。它们或许反映了经过深思熟虑的政治策略，将人口武器化、妖魔化穆斯林并完善印度教投票银行？这些政策忽视了一个事实，即全国各地都可以看到持续的生育率下降。事实上，穆斯林生育率的下降速度比印度教徒的要快。