Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has slammed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's call for a broad population control policy that applied to all, irrespective of religious differences.
Mr. Vijayan termed Mr. Bhagawat's statement Islamophobic and patently anti-minority.
The RSS chief's implication that religion-based population balance was necessary for nationhood had grave consequences for the country's secular, liberal and democratic polity.