Tamilnadu CM Stalin follows Chandrababu Naidu

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin, has encouraged newlyweds in the state to procreate promptly. He said that newly married couple should not waste time and have children. Referencing the forthcoming delimitation process that would reallocate Lok Sabha seats according to population metrics, he proposed this

The initiative to boost birth rates seeks to preserve or enhance Tamil Nadu’s parliamentary representation.

Naidu’s formula

The first political leader in South India who proposed couples have more children is Nara Chandrababu Naidu. For many years, he has been asking couples to have three or four children instead of planning for one or two.

Naidu predicted that South India will suffer a lot and lose political power if we continue to see the decline of population growth.

MK Stalin is echoing the same point.

A situation has emerged in which parliamentary constituencies are delineated according to population, resulting in a greater number of MPs in areas with higher populations. Therefore, I would not advise couples to defer childbearing as was customary in the past; instead, I would advocate for them to have children at the earliest possibility,” Stalin stated.

These statements have incited discourse on population regulation and representation, eliciting diverse responses from political parties.