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Assam to become Muslim-majority state in less than 20 years, nobody can stop it, says CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has again reiterated his claim that the Muslim population in the state is growing around 30% every 10 years, and the demography of the state will change in less than 20 years as the community will become the majority by 2041.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has again reiterated his claim that the Muslim population in the state is growing around 30% every 10 years, and the demography of the state will change in less than 20 years as the community will become the majority by 2041.
Addressing at a press conference in Guwahati on Friday, the Assam Chief Minister said “In 2011, 1.4 crore Muslims were there in Assam. By 2041, Assam will become a Muslim-majority state. It is a reality and nobody can stop it.”
Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Assam Chief Minister said." The increase in population of Muslims in Assam is a statistical fact. The rate of population increase of Muslims is much more than of Hindus and in this rate, they will be a majority by 2041."
It is important to note that during the 2011 census, Assam had a total Muslim population of 1.07 crore, 34.22% of the total population (3.12 crore) in the state, while the Hindu population in the state was 1.92 crore, around 61.47% of the total population.
Citing a ‘statistical sampling,’ the Assam Chief Minister claimed that Muslims now constitute 40% of Assam's total population.
“The state's Muslim population is growing around 30% every 10 years, while the Hindu population is rising by around 16% every 10 years. My government has taken steps to reduce population growth among the Muslim community,” Sarma added.
Taking a dig at Congress former president and Rae Bareli MP Rahul Gandhi, the Assam chief minister said the grand old party can play an important role in population control as the Muslim community "listens to them".
"Rahul Gandhi should be made the brand ambassador of population control. The community that needs population control will only listen to him. If I say the same thing, they will get angry.”
Sarma further said that if earlier chief ministers of the state had spoken like him since 1971 or 1981 about population explosion, the state would have got positive results.
"If the government had taken steps to educate the Muslim girls and against child marriage, this situation would not have developed. I cannot perform a miracle in just three years. If it (Muslims becoming majority) gets delayed till 2051, we will believe we have done something," he said.
Earlier this week, Sarma expressed ‘concern’ at the ‘changing demography’ of Assam.
“Changing demography is a big issue for me. In Assam, Muslims are 40% of the population today. In 1951, they were 12%. This is not a political issue but a matter of life and death for me,” the chief minister said.
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First Published:19 Jul 2024, 07:11 PM IST
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