Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said that all citizens of the country should have three children.

The RSS is the parent organisation of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

“This is what doctors have said,” Bhagwat said during the centenary celebrations of the RSS. “Our country’s population recommends a birth rate of 2.1, which is fine as an average, but you can never have 0.1 of a child. In math, 2.1 becomes 2, but when it comes to births, after two, it has to be three.”

Bhagwat added that “there is also a concern regarding the population imbalance”. “To ensure that the population is under control and also sufficient, there should be three children,” said the RSS chief.

Bhagwat had also expressed concern about India’s falling fertility rate in December and urged couples to have at least three children to prevent population decline.

“According to population science, when the population growth is below 2.1 [total fertility rate], a society perishes on its own,” Bhagwat said at an event in Nagpur. “Nobody destroys it. It no longer exists anywhere in the world. Therefore, it should not come below 2.1 at any cost.”

The “total fertility rate” refers to the average number of children a woman from a country will give birth to throughout her reproductive years. A total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman ensures that a country’s population remains stable, under broad circumstances.

On Thursday, the RSS chief also cited conversion and undocumented migration as key reasons behind the “demographic imbalance” in the country, PTI reported. He added that while the Union government was trying to curb undocumented migration, society also needs to do its part.

“We should not give jobs to illegal immigrants; we should give jobs to our own people, including Muslims,” the news agency quoted Bhagwat as saying.

Bhagwat’s comments come weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day announced the formation of a “high-powered demography mission” to deal with “infiltrators” who were snatching away the livelihood of the youth in the country.

“These infiltrators mislead innocent tribals and capture their land,” he claimed. “This will not be tolerated.” Modi added that such “illegals” would be dealt with in a planned and determined manner within a fixed timeframe.

“When demographic change takes place – especially in border regions – it creates a threat to national security,” the prime minister claimed. “No country can hand itself over to infiltrators. No country in the world does this, so how can we allow it for India?”

This came against the backdrop of the Trinamool Congress repeatedly raising concerns about several Bengali-speaking migrant workers being detained in parts of the country on suspicion of being Bangladeshis.

Since the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, the police in several states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party have been detaining Bengali-speaking persons – mostly Muslims – and asking them to prove that they are Indian citizens.

Several persons have been forced into Bangladesh after they allegedly could not prove their Indian citizenship. In some cases, persons who were mistakenly sent to Bangladesh returned to the country after state authorities in India proved that they were Indians.

In October 2022, the RSS chief pitched for a comprehensive population control policy that applied to all communities, raising concerns about “religion-based imbalance”.

Organiser, the mouthpiece of the Sangh, has raised concerns that lower birth rates may put western and southern states at a “disadvantage” during the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies in the future.

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