Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma appealed to immigrant Muslim people of the northeastern state to adopt a decent family planning policy for population control. He said that population was the main root of every social menace and" if we control it then social menace will be automatically reduced".

He said a state population policy was already in place and it will be effective soon in government jobs, but the government wanted to work for the minority Muslim community to reduce the population burden, IBNS said.

“We want to work more for the minority Muslim community to reduce population burden. We want to work together with them so that the population in the state should be controlled. Population is the main root of social menace like poverty, land encroachment and we can reduce this social menace if population will reduce,”  Sarma said.

On the occasion of the completion of 30 days of his BJP government, he said his government will focus to educate the women of the minority Muslim community so that the problem can be addressed effectively. (SAM)