Jakhar calls to put check on population growth

Karnal, May 26 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Governor Balram Jhakhar today said the growing population in India was the biggest challenge and its control could solve a number of problems.

Interacting with mediaperson here today he observed that if countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt and China can check their population growth, so could India.

To reduce burden on the land, agro-based industries should be given impetus on the pattern of most of the European countries, he said, adding that farmers should have some stake in SEZs.

Denying that he was a presidential candidate, he said he had never asked anything for himself but hastened to add that a peasant as president would be a welcome change.

Answering a query on Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, he said his stance was totally impartial befitting a Governor. He said he always inspired his CM to formulate programmes for the welfare of the state.

He was in the town to attend a meeting of the Bharat Krishak Samaj.

UNI