Shiv Sena offers cash to Hindus with big families

The party would hold a programme in November-end to reward these families along with an appreciation certificate with a message, “Rashtra hit me Hinduon ki jansankhya badhane ke liye (For increasing population of Hindus in the interest of the nation).”

The party would also launch an agitation from November 1 against family planning by Hindus. Partymen will lock government medical health centres across the state as part of the agitation.

Singh alleged only Hindus were going for vasectomy and tubectomy while other communities were avoiding it to increase their population in the country. “We will appeal to Hindus that increasing our population is the need of the hour. If we will not, Hindus will become negligible in the country.”

He added government medical centres will be locked for a few hours in various districts on different days from November 1 onwards while another date would be decided to hold such protests across the state on a particular day. Sena workers had staged one such protest at a primary health centre in Meerut last week, he claimed.

He said the party had held a similar programme seven years ago in Lucknow when each Hindu couple having 10 or more children was awarded a cash of Rs 11,000. Then, around 120 families were awarded and most of them belonged to western and eastern UP, Singh claimed.