Congress leader Jitin Prasada calls for two-child norm

Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 18

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have earned himself an unlikely ally in the cause of population stabilisation. For the second time in a fortnight, Congress leader Jitin Prasada batted for population control and a two-child norm.

Prasada said the Congress’s Panchmarhi conclave had spoken of the two-child norm.

“It’s time to sensitise and make India aware of the need for Population control/stabilisation. It has been the part of @INCIndia Panchmarhi shivir sakalp to work towards the goal of the two child norm. #nationalinterest,” Prasada tweeted.

He said that to start with Congress workers should mobilise 10 families to adopt population control measures based on the two-child norm.

Modi in his Independence Day speech had spoken of people practising small-family norm as “patriots”.