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11/29/2005:

"Hindus are urged to go forth and multiply"

A leading Hindu ideologue has angered secular parties in India by urging Hindu women to have at least three children to stop Muslims outnumbering them in some areas.

K S Sudarshan, the leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh group, has been accused of playing on sectarian divisions.

"Whenever new people come to me for blessings, I tell them, 'Not less than three [children].' The more … the better," he said at the launch of a controversial book, Religious Demography of India.

His words, condemned as "the politics of scare and silliness" by moderates, aim to strike a chord with the Hindu masses who comprise 80 per cent of India's population of more than 1.1 billion.
telegraph.co.uk