The Bengal BJP leadership has slammed the Trinamool Congress leadership for "encouraging" communal mindset within the party after a senior TMC leader and Bengal Minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury publicly advocated procreation of more children to achieve numerical preeminence.

Sharing a snippet from an alleged public statement made by Chowdhury Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari said what the Minister was doing was a kind of "population jihad" with a hidden agenda to numerically upset the demographic pattern of Bengal.

Wondering how the TMC leadership and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee could look right through such audacious remarks Adhikari said, "these are alarm bells for the people of Bengal … are these people trying to create a Bangladesh like situation here in this part of the border? … Was this man giving a camouflaged hint to a particular community to increase their population … in the name of overtaking China's population."

"Unfortunately, all these communal statements came from a senior Minister of the Mamata Banerjee's Cabinet and asking a particular section of people to have more children … That too within a close distance of State Assembly," he said adding how a steady influx of the Rohingyas from Bangladesh had jacked up the minority population to 35 percent.

Chowdhury the Minister in charge of the Department of Mass Education Extension and Library Services was reportedly seen telling people that if the people wanted to match the prowess of China then they should adopt a policy of Hum do Humare Chaar (four children per couple). Incidentally the Government of India had for decades been pursuing the policy of two-child norm through a popular coinage that reads "hum do humare do (Two children per couple)."

Chowdhury reportedly said, "If we want to fight China, then, we will need to have a similar population," apparently oblivious of the fact that India had already outnumbered China. Adhikari also appealed to the Narendra Modi Government to implement a nationwide bill to control population "before it is too late."

Later Adhikari wrote on the X "it's my humble plea to the Central Government, that it's high time to get the Population Control Bill passed as the enactment is necessary to halt the rising population growth and put brakes on the demographic changes, which are posing challenges to the goal of Vikshit Bharat."