NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said infiltration was the main reason for disparity in the rates of growth of numbers of different religious communities, and said that the changes in demography were a threat to country's culture and democratic ethos while vowing that govt would pursue a "detect, delete and deport" strategy against infiltrators. "In the 1951 census, Hindus constituted 84%, while Muslims constituted 9.8%. In 1971, Hindus constituted 82% and the Muslim population was 11%, while in 1991, Hindus constituted 81% and the Muslim community accounted for 12.12%, while in 1991, we accounted for 89%, and Muslims accounted for 14.2%. I'm talking about the populations of only two religions because I want to talk about infiltration," Shah said Delivering the Narendra M
Influx from Pakistan, Bangladesh fuelling disparity in population growth: Amit Shah

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