"Modi shouldn't lose voting right," leader mocks Ramdev's Third Child Remark

A day after Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said "third child shouldn't be allowed to vote" as part of suggestions to check population, the leader of AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday slammed Ramdev and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi shouldn't "lose his right to vote just because he's the 3rd kid."

Owaisi, took to Twitter and said "There is no law preventing people from saying downright unconstitutional things, but why do Ramdev's ideas receive undue attention?" He also took a dig at Ramdev over his Yoga poses. "That he can do a thing with his stomach or move about his legs shouldn't mean @narendramodi lose his right to vote just because he's the 3rd kid (sic)."

Media reports say that, Ramdev, at a press conference in Haridwar on Sunday, had said: "India's population should not be more than 150 crores in the next 50 years as we are not prepared or ready to bear more than that."

"This is only possible when the government makes a law that third child would not be allowed to vote, neither contest election nor he/she enjoys any type of privileges and facilities given by the government," the 53-year-old Yoga guru was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

He went to suggest a punitive measure to check population. PM Modi is the third child of Damodardas Modi and Hiraba Modi, who was born on September 17, 1950 in Gujarat's Vadnagar. He was the third of six children in his family.