KOLKATA: If Muslims have a high birth rate, Hindus are a close second; fertility of all communities is dependent on socio-economic factors, like literacy, income and delivery of family planning education; fake news by propaganda machinery of the right-wing organisations must be countered by facts. These were the talking points in a panel discussion on ‘Population: Are Muslims Overtaking the Hindus in the city’ on Friday evening.
Panellists included former chief election commissioner of India S Y Qureshi, RS Trinamool MP Jawahar Sircar, former deputy chief of Indian Army and ex-VC, Aligarh Muslim University, Zameer Uddin Shah, former mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and cardiac surgeon Kunal Sarkar.
