TheIndian Union Muslim League(IUML) has condemned theAssamgovernment’s proposed Population policy and labeled it not only “discriminatory” but also “anti-secular and unconstitutional”.
It also slammed Assam chief minister Himanta BiswaSarmafor advocating a two-child norm for availing benefits under specific schemes and omitting certain communities from it.
Assam currently has a two-child norm, along with requirements of minimum educational qualifications and functional sanitary toilets, for contesting in gaon panchayat polls as per an amendment in 2018 to the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994.