Demographic disruption emerging as threat to nationalism: Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said "demographic disruption" was emerging as a serious threat to nationalism, and called for united efforts against attempts to change the "organic demography" through allurement and temptation. Speaking during an interaction programme with students on the theme - 'Ideas for building Better Bharat', in Raipur, he also stressed the need to deal with the problem of illegal migration, stating that it has taken the shape of "unmanageable dimension" with the migrants straining the country's resources, employment, health and education sectors. Batting for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), he asked how anybody could object to "something that is written in the Constitution".

UCC, the Uniform Civil Code, is enshrined in the Directive Principles of State Policy in our Constitution. It places an obligation on governance to enact a law for a uniform civil code. One state, Uttarakhand, has done it.

How can there be objections to something explicitly… pic.twitter.com/XQhBr6drsW

— Vice-President of India (@VPIndia) January 21, 2025

Students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai were present at the programme held at Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Auditorium in the state capital.Governor Ramen Deka and Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai were also present on the occasion.
He further flagged the issue of illegal migration and cited its impact in the country.“We are suffering illegal migration in this country of millions. If we go to count the number…mind boggling. Illegal migration has to be dealt with, but it developed…without even a token of resistance. It’s a problem we will have to handle because it has taken the shape of unmanageable dimensions,” he said. Millions of illegal migrants who have potential to upset our electoral mechanism – they find easy supporters where people think in terms of petty politics. We should always put the nation first and an illegal migrant in our country has no justification. If it is in millions, look at the impact it has on the economy, he said.