Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said “demographic disruption” was emerging as a serious threat to nationalism, and called for united efforts against attempts to change the “organic demography” through allurement and temptation.
Speaking during an interaction programme with students on the theme ‘Ideas for building Better Bharat’, he also stressed the need to deal with the problem of illegal migration, stating that it has taken the shape of “unmanageable dimension” with the migrants straining the country’s resources, employment, health and education sectors.
Batting for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), he asked how anybody could object to “something that is written in the Constitution”.
Students of the NIT Raipur, IIM Raipur and IIT Bhilai were present at the programme held at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium in the state capital.
“There is a serious cause of concern we need to address in togetherness. Threats are emerging for our nationalism in the form of demographic disruptions. Demographic disruption is very serious,” he said.
“We are suffering illegal migration in this country of millions… Millions of illegal migrants who have potential to upset our electoral mechanism, they find easy supporters where people think in terms of petty politics…,” he said.
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