BJP’s Population Politics & India’s Population Policy | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (21)

Uttar Pradesh announced a new population policy recently. Assam implemented one from 2017. PM Modi expressed concern about population explosion in 2019. In this episode, Dr Parakala examines the data on India's population growth, the trends of total fertility rates over the years, and the projections about India's population growth in the years to come in an attempt to understand the nature of concerns expressed by Prime Minister Modi and his lieutenants in various states.