Chandrababu Naidu Advocates Population Growth as Key to India's Future

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister shifts his stance, emphasizing demographic management over family planning to address global aging challenges and ensure economic sustainability.

• Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has reversed his previous stance on family planning, now promoting population growth as a national asset.
• Naidu highlighted India's demographic dividend as a unique advantage in the global landscape, contrasting it with aging populations in countries like Japan and China.
• He clarified that his focus is on 'demographic management' rather than unchecked population growth, aiming to ensure economic sustainability through strategic policies.
• The Chief Minister suggested incentivizing families to have more children, particularly in regions facing aging-related challenges, while addressing resource allocation concerns.
• Naidu distinguished population management from the delimitation process, promising to address southern states' concerns about parliamentary representation changes.

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