Dehradun, July 13: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Nainital, Ajay Bhatt has introduced a private member bill in the Lok Sabha on population control which has also been tabled.

It will be discussed along with the facts in the coming days, Bhatt informed. Also Read | ICMR Tests a Total of 1,18,06,256 COVID-19 Samples in India So Far: Live News Breaking and Coronavirus Updates on July 13, 2020.

"Controlling the population is very important, it is increasing alarmingly. Castes, religions, etc should not be of the scale of the population, there should be the same law for everyone, there should be the same boundaries," said Bhatt.

"I have made an effort to bring a bill in Lok Sabha to control the population because the kind of problems have already occurred and which are going to occur in the future are an alarm for us," he added. Also Read | CT Ravi, Karnataka Tourism Minister, Tests Positive for COVID-19, His Wife and Staff Members Test Negative.

Bhatt continued saying that even the PM has mentioned about population control in one of his speeches. "Had the COVID-19 crisis not occurred, we would have witnessed some positive step in this regard. In the next census, we would even cross China's population in the future according to the experts," he added.

Earlier this week, Union Minister Giriraj Singh had also said that rising population of the country has become a "challenge" and added that "strict laws for the same are required if we want to stand with developed nations".

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