Owaisi Calls PM Modi’s Population Control Pitch ‘Intrusive’ and ‘Discarded’

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for smaller families, describing the idea as “discarded” and “intrusive”. He was responding in New Delhi soon after the Prime Minister raised the issue of population growth in his Independence Day speech.

Owaisi’s objection

In a post on Twitter, Owaisi said most Indians are young and productive, but warned that this demographic advantage would last only until 2040, roughly two more decades. He accused the Prime Minister of not knowing how to make use of it.

“@PMOIndia is clueless about what how to utilise this advantage,” he wrote, adding that the government was turning to ideas that, in his view, avoided its own responsibility.

What the Prime Minister said

Earlier in the day, speaking from the Red Fort on Independence Day, Modi voiced concern about rapid population growth, saying it creates many challenges for future generations. He said the central and state governments should take steps to address the problem.

The Prime Minister said it was time for the country to confront its challenges directly. He argued that if people are not educated and healthy, neither their families nor the nation can be happy. Keeping one’s family small, he said, is a patriotic act, and those who do so deserve respect and should be honoured.

See also: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and political leaders.

Originally published on 16 August 2019. Rewritten on 9 October 2026.

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