Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that the rise in India’s Muslim population was not due to fertility rates but because of “ large-scale infiltration ”.

Addressing a lecture on “Infiltration, Demographic Change and Democracy”, organised by Dainik Jagran , Shah said that the Muslim population in the country had “increased at a rate of 24.6%, while the Hindu population had decreased by 4.5%”.

“This decline is not due to the fertility rate but rather due to infiltration,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said. “When India was partitioned, Pakistan was formed on both sides based on religion, which later split into Bangladesh and Pakistan… infiltration from both sides has led to such a significant change in the population.”

Shah said the disparity in population growth acros

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