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MK Stalin on Population: After Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, now Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has emphasized on increasing the population. CM Stalin has appealed to the people to produce more children. During a mass marriage program in Chennai, the Chief Minister said that now the time has come for newly married couples to have 16 children each.
Chief Minister discussed 16 types of money
At the mass wedding ceremony, Stalin said, 'Our elders used to bless the newly married couple to get 16 types of property. Maybe it's time to have 16 children instead of 16 types of property. When the elders used to say to give birth to 16 children, they did not mean to give birth to 16 children but to acquire 16 types of wealth. Author Vishwanathan has mentioned 16 properties in his book. 16 Wealth means cow, house, wife, children, education, curiosity, knowledge, discipline, land, water, age, vehicle, gold, wealth, crop and praise. But now no one gives the blessing of getting 16 types of property. Only get children and prosperity.'
MK Stalin further said about this, 'The elders used to bless us to get 16 types of property. Now it is said that 'have limited number of children and live a happy life', but today it is happening that our MP seats are continuously decreasing, in such a situation a mentality has developed that only 16 children is the limited number. May be of children. Why not produce! We should not forget this.
Chandrababu Naidu also appealed to increase the population
CM Stalin said this while inaugurating the marriage program of HR and CE department in Chennai. Earlier, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu had announced that the Andhra Pradesh government is planning to encourage families to have more children and urged people in the South Indian state to consider having more children. Has been.
Andhra Pradesh government will bring a new law
Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu expressed concern over the declining youth population in Andhra Pradesh and said, 'People of South Indian states should produce more children. Our government is planning to bring a new law to increase the youth population and population rate. Under this, only people with two or more children can contest local body elections in Andhra Pradesh. The government is planning to make a law in this regard soon.
Both Chief Ministers have different arguments on population growth
Looking at the situation created by the increasing population of elderly people in the villages of Andhra Pradesh and migration of youth to other places, Chandrababu Naidu said that if this continues, there will be a serious problem by 2047. In many villages only the elderly population will survive. They found that the state's average fertility rate was 1.6 compared to the national fertility rate of 2.1 percent. Whereas Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has openly talked about increasing the population to increase the number of parliamentary seats.