Candidates with More Than Two Kids Only Eligible for Andhra Local Polls

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North India may lose its advantage of having a stable fertility rate in about 15 years, says Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu

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TIRUPATI – As part of the government’s strategy to arrest the falling population in the state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has said only those with more than two children will be allowed to contest the local body elections in the state.

Naidu said he will bring out policies to encourage people to have more children.

“At one time, individuals with many children were not allowed to contest the panchayat (election) or local bodies. Now what I am saying is that individuals with lower numbers of children cannot contest. You will be a sarpanch, municipal councillor, corporation chairman, or a mayor only if you have more than two children,” he told reporters in his native village of Naravaripalle in the Tirupati District of the state recently. 

According to the chief minister, North India may lose its advantage of having a stable fertility rate in about 15 years.

The chief minister who is also Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo noted that the older generations had more children, while the current generation brought it down to one child and also highlighted that some ‘smart’ people nowadays are going for double income with no kids (DINK) concept to enjoy, a Press Trust of India (PTI) report said on Thursday.

“Your parents bore four to five children and you reduced it to one. Even smarter people now are saying double income no kids let us enjoy. If their parents had thought like them, they would not have come into this world,” he was quoted as saying.

“All countries made this mistake, and we have to make the decision at the right time,” said Naidu, adding that the importance of having more children was not stressed and the situation went out of hand.

Citing countries like South Korea, Japan and continental Europe, he said people in those places did not realise the danger of plummeting populations but only focused on creating wealth, raising income and taking those countries forward.

“Now they need people, we have to send them. We came to that situation,” Naidu added.

Early this month, Naidu flagged the falling birth rate and said India should not repeat the mistakes committed by other countries such as South Korea and Japan, where birth rates have plummeted.

The chief minister said some couples are averse to having children nowadays because they do not want to share the money they earned and use those riches for their own enjoyment.

Naidu, in October last year, said there was a need to manage the population in Andhra Pradesh given that there will be an increase in the aging population.

“Till 2047, we will have the demographic dividend, there will be more youngsters. After 2047, there will be more old people…if less than two children are given birth (per woman), then the population will reduce. If you (each woman) give birth to more than two children, then the population will increase,” Naidu had said.

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