In his speech at the AICC introducing the draft manifesto, Nehru himself had admitted: One thing, it [sic] is not found in the manifesto, but it is mentioned in the Planning Commission report and it is also in my report, which you considered earlier today. It is the question of population in India and the necessity for trying to prevent its rapid increase by methods, what are called family planning or more correctly, birth control. Some people are rather frightened of those words but the fact is, the people will have to think about it… The whole thing is, more we improve our public health,
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