How Many Children do BJP MLAs in UP have?

Given the controversy over the Uttar Pradesh government's population control policy, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP legislators in UP have.

IMAGE: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Ajay Mohan Bisht aka Yogi Adityanath listens to a young citizen's grievances at his official residence in Lucknow during a Janata Darshan, July 12 2021. Photograph: Pawan Kumar/ANI Photo

The draft population control bill announced by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh has led to an uproar.

According to the proposal, those having more than two children will be debarred from contesting local bodies polls, applying for government jobs or receiving any kind of subsidy, and from promotions in government jobs.

A draft of the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Bill, 2021, has been uploaded on the state law commission Web site and suggestions have been invited from the public till July 19. The legislation will come into force after one year from the date of publication in the gazette.

Simultaneously, Chief Minister Ajay Mohan Bisht unveiled the Uttar Pradesh Population Policy 2021-2030 that aims to 'bring down the gross fertility rate among women to 2.1 by 2026 and to 1.9 by 2030'.

Besides seeking to achieve population stabilisation and reduce preventable maternal and infant deaths, the UP Population Policy also aims at preventing the death of children under the age of 5 years and improving their nutritional condition.

The population policy and the draft bill for population control have become a political flashpoint in UP where assembly elections are slated to be held by March.

The 40-page policy document mentions that 'attempts would be made to ensure there is a population balance among various communities in the state. Extensive campaigns would be run in communities, groups, and geographical areas where fertility rates were higher.'

The moves have met with pushback not just from Opposition parties like the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, but also from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, which, like the BJP is part of rhe Sangh Parivar.

In a letter to the state law commission the VHP said 'Different communities respond differently to incentives or disincentives related to family planning and contraception'.

VHP International Working President Alok Kumar said in the letter that it was 'concerned about the Hindu population contracting whereas other communities are expanding.'

'The Total Fertility Rate of Hindus in states like Assam and Kerala has declined far below the replacement rate of 2.1, but that of Muslims is 3.16 in Assam and in Kerala, it is 2.33.

'In these states, one of the communities has thus entered the contraction phase while the other is still expanding,' the VHP letter stated.

Given the controversy, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com dug deep to find out how many children BJP legislators in UP have.

Number of children UP's BJP MLAs have
Name	Constituency	Boys	Girls	Total
Roshan Lal Verma	Tilhar	3	5	8
Madhuri Verma	Nanpara	1	6	7
Kunwar Ajay Pratap Singh	Colonelganj	4	2	6
Awasthi Bala Prasad	Dhaurahra	3	3	6
Krishna Paswan	Khaga	3	3	6
Kailash Singh Rajput	Tirwa	2	4	6
Baijnath Rawat	Haidergarh	3	3	6
Ratnakar Mishra	Mirzapur	2	4	6
Ram Naresh Agnihotri	Bhongaon	2	4	6
Satyaprakash Agarwal	Meerut Cantonment	3	3	6
Professor (Dr) Avadhesh Singh	Pindra	2	3	5
Udaybhan Singh	Fatehpur Sikri	5	0	5
Kamlesh Saini	Chandpur	1	4	5
Chetram	Powayan	2	3	5
Dr G S Dharmesh	Agra Cantontment	3	2	5
Biharilal Arya	Mauranipur	2	3	5
Manohar Lal	Mehroni	3	2	5
Mahendra Singh Khargvanshi	Hasanpur	2	3	5
Mahesh Chandra Gupta	Badaun	2	3	5
Mukut Bihari Verma	Kaiserganj	2	3	5
Ravindra Nath Tripathi	Bhadohi	3	2	5
Ram Chandra Yadav	Rudauli	3	2	5
Ramferan Pandey	Shrawasti	2	3	5
Shriram Sonkar	Muhammadabad Gohna (SC)	3	2	5
Hriday Narayan Dikshit	Bhagwantnagar	3	2	5
Raj Kumar Sahyogi	Iglas	2	3	5
Dr Ajay Kumar	Bara	1	3	4
Dr Anil Kumar Maurya	Ghorawal	1	3	4
Arvind Giri	Gola Gokrannath	2	2	4
Kamlesh Shukla	Rampur Karkhana	3	1	4
Karinda Singh	Goverdhan	3	1	4
Kali Prasad	Salempur	2	2	4
Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay	Chitrakoot	2	2	4
Jai Devi	Malihabad	4	0	4
Jaimangal	Maharajganj	1	3	4
Dayaram Chaudhary	Basti Sadar	1	3	4
Dara Singh Chauhan	Madhuban	2	2	4
Dinesh Chaudhary	Kerakat	3	1	4
Devendra Singh Lodhi	Syana	2	2	4
Dr Dharam Singh Saini	Nakur	3	1	4
Pooran Prakash	Baldev	3	1	4
Pramod Utwal	Purqazi	4	0	4
Bajrang Bahadur Singh	Pharenda	1	3	4
Manvendra Singh	Dadraul	3	1	4
Ranvendra Pratap Singh	Husainganj	2	2	4
Raj Karan Kabir	Naraini	2	2	4
Rajkumar Agrwal	Sandila	3	1	4
Rajmani Kol	Koraon	2	2	4
Rajendra Pratap Singh	Patti	1	3	4
Ram Pal Verma	Balamau	4	0	4
Laxmi Narayan	Chhata	1	3	4
Lal Bahadur	Manjhanpur	1	3	4
Vikram Singh	Khatauli	2	2	4
Vikramajeet Maurya	Phaphamau	1	3	4
Vijay Pal	Hapur	2	2	4
Vinay Kumar Dwivedi	Mehnaun	1	3	4
Vipin Kumar	Etah	2	2	4
Ved Prakash Gupta	Ayodhya	3	1	4
Sharada Prasad	Chakia	3	1	4
Sheetla Prasad	Sirathu	2	2	4
Sanjeev Kumar Diwakar	Jalesar	3	1	4
Sanju Devi	Tanda	3	1	4
Satyapal Singh Rathaur	Aliganj	3	1	4
Sant Prasad	Khajani	3	1	4
Savitri Katheria	Bharthana	3	1	4
Sitaram Verma	Sadar	1	3	4
Surendra Narayan Singh	Rohaniya	3	1	4
Sureshwar Singh	Mahasi	2	2	4
Kamal Singh Malik	Garhmukteshwar	2	2	4
Ajeet Kumar	Gunnaur	2	1	3
Atul Garg	Gaziabad	2	1	3
Anil Parashar	Koil	2	1	3
Anil Rajbhar	Shivpur	1	2	3
Anupma Jaiswal	Bahraich	1	2	3
Anoop Pradhan	Khair	1	2	3
Abhijeet Singh Sanga	Bithoor	1	2	3
Amar Singh	Kaimganj	2	1	3
Arun Kumar Yadav	Phoolpur Pawai	0	3	3
Om Kumar	Nehtaur	2	1	3
Kapil Dev Agarwal	Muzaffarnagar	2	1	3
Kishan Lal Rajpoot	Barkhera	1	2	3
Ganga	Fazilnagar	1	2	3
Garima Singh	Amethi	1	2	3
Girish Chandra Yadav	Jaunpur	1	2	3
Gulab Devi	Chandausi	0	3	3
Chandrapal Kushwaha	Baberu	2	1	3
Jai Prakash Nishad	Rudrapur	1	2	3
Jitendera Pal Singh	Siwalkhas	1	2	3
Jitendra Verma	Fatehabad	2	1	3
Gyan Tiwari	Sevata	2	1	3
Gyanendra Singh	Paniyara	1	2	3
Tejpal Singh Nagar	Dadri	1	2	3
Dalveer Singh	Barauli	1	2	3
Digvijay Narayan Chaubey	Khalilabad	2	1	3
Dinanath Bhaskar	Aurai	2	1	3
Deomani Dwivedi	Lambhua	1	2	3
Devendra Singh Rajput	Kasganj	1	2	3
Dharmpal Singh	Aonla	3	0	3
Dhamendra Singh Shakya	Shekhupur	2	1	3
Nand Gopal Gupta	Allahabad South	2	1	3
Narendra Pal Singh	Kalpi	2	1	3
Nagendra Singh Rathore	Bhojpur	3	0	3
Dr Neeraj Bora	Lucknow North	1	2	3
Neelam Karwariya	Meja	1	2	3
Paltooram	Balrampur	2	1	3
Pratibha Shukla	Akbarpur Raniya	2	1	3
Prem Narayan Pandey	Tarabganj	2	1	3
Premsagar Patel	Siswa	3	0	3
Bamba Lal	Safipur	2	1	3
Baburam Paswan	Puranpur	2	1	3
Bimla Singh Solanki	Sikandrabad	1	2	3
Birendra Singh Rana	Sikandra Rao	2	1	3
Brijesh Kumar	Mohan	3	0	3
Brajesh Kumar Prajapati	Tindwari	0	3	3
Brajesh Pathak	Lucknow Central	1	2	3
Bhagwati Prasad Sagar	Bilhaur	1	2	3
Manish Asija	Firozabad	2	1	3
Mamtesh Shakya	Patiyali	1	2	3
Mahesh Trivedi	Kidwai Nagar	3	0	3
Ravendra Pal Singh	Chharra	2	1	3
Rakesh Singh Baghel	Menhdawal	1	2	3
Rajeev Kumar Singh	Dataganj	2	1	3
Rajeev Singh	Babina	1	2	3
Rajesh Agarwal	Bareilly Cantonment	1	2	3
Rajesh Kumar Mishra	Bithari Chainpur	1	2	3
Ramgopal Pappu Lodhi	Jasrana	1	2	3
Ram Naresh Rawat	Bachhrawan	1	2	3
Ramratan Kushwaha	Lalitpur	1	2	3
Lakhan Singh	Dibiyapur	3	0	3
Vikram Singh	Fatehpur	1	2	3
Vinay Shakya	Bidhuna	1	2	3
Sharad Kumar Awasthi	Ram Nagar	1	2	3
Sheetal Pandey	Sahajanwa	3	0	3
Shyam Prakash	Gopamau	2	1	3
Dr Shyam Bihari Lal	Faridpur	1	2	3
Ram Chauhan	Dhanghata	1	2	3
Sanjay	Anupshahr	2	1	3
Sanjeev Kumar	Obra	3	0	3
Satish Chandra Sharma	Dariyabad	2	1	3
Satyavir Tyagi	Kithore	2	1	3
Sarita Bhadauriya	Etawah	2	1	3
Sadhana Singh	Mughalsarai	2	1	3
Surendra Nath Singh	Bairia	1	2	3
Suresh Kumar	Thana Bhawan	2	1	3
Suresh Pasi	Jagdishpur	3	0	3
Suresh Tiwari	Barhaj	2	1	3
Sushil Singh	Saiyadraja	1	2	3
Surya Pratap Shahi	Pathardeva	1	2	3
Suryabhan Singh	Sultanpur	2	1	3
Dr Somendra Tomar	Meerut South	2	1	3
Hari Shankar Mahor	Hathras	2	1	3
Yuvraj Singh	Hamirpur	2	1	3
Suresh Chandra Tiwari	Lucknow Cantonment	2	1	3
Prempal Singh Dhangar	Tundla	1	2	3
Agyash Ram Saran Verma	Bisalpur	1	1	2
Ajay Kumar Singh	Harraiya	1	1	2
Ajit Pal Tyagi	Muradnagar	2	0	2
Anil Sharma	Shikarpur	1	1	2
Aneeta	Alapur	2	0	2
Anurag Singh	Chunar	1	1	2
Abhay Kumar Ojha	Raniganj	2	0	2
Archana Pandey	Chhibramau	2	0	2
Alka Rai	Mohammadabad	2	0	2
Avtar Singh Bhadana	Meerapur	1	1	2
Avinash Trivedi	Bakshi Kaa Talab	1	1	2
Upendra Tiwari	Phephana	0	2	2
Karan Singh Patel	Bindki	2	0	2
Krishanpal Malik	Baraut	1	1	2
Kailash Nath Shukla	Tulsipur	1	1	2
Gauri Shankar	Orai	1	1	2
Chandra Prakash Shukl	Kaptanganj	0	2	2
Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar	Baheri	0	2	2
Jatashanker Tripathi	Khadda	1	1	2
Jai Pratap Singh	Bansi	2	0	2
Jawahar Lal Rajpoot	Garautha	2	0	2
Dr D C Varma	Meerganj	1	1	2
Dinesh Khatik	Hastinapur	1	1	2
Devender Kumar Nim	Rampur Maniharan	1	1	2
Dhirendra Singh	Jewar	1	1	2
Nand Kishore	Loni	2	0	2
Nirmala Sankhwar	Rasulabad	1	1	2
Dr Neelkanth Tiwari	Varanasi South	1	1	2
Nilima Katiyar	Kalyanpur	2	0	2
Pankaj Singh	Noida	1	1	2
Prakash Chandra Dwivedi	Banda	1	1	2
Prabhat Kumar Verma	Gaura	2	0	2
Praveen Kumar Singh	Phulpur	1	1	2
Fateh Bahadur	Caimpiyarganj	2	0	2
Baldev Singh Aulakh	Bilaspur	1	1	2
Bahoran Lal Maurya	Bhojipura	0	2	2
Brijbhushan Rajpoot	Charkhari	2	0	2
Brijesh	Deoband	1	1	2
Bhupesh Chaubey	Robertsganj	1	1	2
Manju Tyagi	Sri Nagar	1	1	2
Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh	Tiloi	2	0	2
Mahendra Pal Singh	Pipraich	1	1	2
Mahendra Pratap Singh	Biswan	1	1	2
Mahesh Kumar Goyal	Kheragarh	2	0	2
Kunwar Madhvendra Pratap	Sawaijpur	1	1	2
Dr Mukesh Chandra Verma	Shikohabad	1	1	2
Yogendra Upadhyaya	Agra South	2	0	2
Yogesh Dhama	Baghpat	2	0	2
Yogesh Verma	Lakhimpur	1	1	2
Rajnikant Mani Tripathi	Kushinagar	1	1	2
Rajani Tiwari	Shahabad	1	1	2
Ramapati Shastri	Mankapur	1	1	2
Rama Shankar Singh	Marihan	2	0	2
Ramesh Chandra Mishra	Badlapur	2	0	2
Ravi Kumar Sonkar	Mahadewa	0	2	2
Ravi Sharma	Jhansi Nagar	1	1	2
Ravindra Jaiswal	Varanasi North	1	1	2
Rakesh Rathore	Sitapur	1	1	2
Raghvendra Pratap Singh	Doomariyaganj	1	1	2
Rajbala Singh	Milak	1	1	2
Rajesh Kumar Singh	Kanth	2	0	2
Rajesh Gautam	Kadipur	0	2	2
Radha Krishan Sharma	Bilsi	1	1	2
Ram Krishna Bhargava	Misrikh	2	0	2
Ram Pratap Singh	Etmadpur	1	1	2
Ram Pratap Verma	Utraula	2	0	2
Ritesh Kumar Gupta	Moradabad Nagar	1	1	2
Lokendra Pratap Singh	Mohammdi	2	0	2
Vikas Gupta	Ayah Shah	2	0	2
Vijendra Singh	Khurja	2	0	2
Vinod Kumar Katiyar	Bhognipur	1	1	2
Bipin Singh	Gorakhpur Rural	1	1	2
Virendra	Marhara	1	1	2
Shashank Trivedi	Maholi	2	0	2
Shuchismita Maurya	Majhawan	1	1	2
Shrikant Sharma	Mathura	2	0	2
Sangeet Singh Som	Sardhana	1	1	2
Dr Sangeeta Balwant	Ghazipur	2	0	2
Sanjay Pratap Jaiswal	Rudhauli	1	1	2
Dr Satish Chandra Dwivedi	Itwa	1	1	2
Satish Mahana	Maharajpur	1	1	2
Sidharth Nath Singh	Allahabad West	2	0	2
Suchi	Bijnor	1	1	2
Sunita	Zamania	1	1	2
Sunil Kumar Sharma	Sahibabad	2	0	2
Major Sunil Dutt Dwivedi	Farrukhabad	1	1	2
Suneel Verma	Laharpur	2	0	2
Subhash Tripathi	Payagpur	2	0	2
Suresh Rahi	Hargaon	1	1	2
Sushil Kumar Shakya	Amritpur	2	0	2
Saurabh Singh	Kasta	1	1	2
Swati Singh	Sarojini Nagar	1	1	2
Swami Prasad Maurya	Padrauna	1	1	2
Harvindar Kumar Sahni	Palia	2	0	2
Dr Harendra Prasad Singh	Zafrabad	1	1	2
Purushottam Khandelwal	Agra North	1	1	2
Kirat Singh	Gangoh	1	1	2
Anand Shukla	Manikpur	1	1	2
Surendra Maithani	Govindnagar	1	1	2
Dr Satyaprakash Madi Tripathi	Deoria	1	1	2
Upendra Nath Paswan	Ghatampur	2	0	2
Shrikant Katiyar	Bangermau	1	1	2
Usha Sirohi	Bulandshahr	2	0	2
Dr Anita Lodhi Rajput	Debai	0	1	1
Dr Arun Kumar	Bareilly	1	0	1
Ashok Kumar Rana	Dhampur	1	0	1
Ashish Kumar Singh “Ashu”	Bilgram Mallanwan	1	0	1
Ashutosh Tandon	Lucknow East	0	1	1
Umesh Malik	Budhana	1	0	1
Tejendra Nirwal	Shamli	1	0	1
Dhananjay Kannoujia	Belthara Road	1	0	1
Dhirendra Bahadur Singh	Sareni	0	1	1
Pankaj Gupta	Unnao	1	0	1
Rani Pakshalika Singh	Bah	1	0	1
Pawan Kumar	Hata	1	0	1
Prateek Bhushan Singh	Gonda	1	0	1
Prabhash Kumar	Sandi	1	0	1
Baba Gorakhnath	Milkipur	1	0	1
Bawan Singh	Katra Bazar	1	0	1
Manisha Anuragi	Rath	1	0	1
Dr Manju Shiwach	Modi Nagar	0	1	1
Moolchandra Singh	Madhaugarh	1	0	1
Rakesh Kumar Goswami	Mahoba	1	0	1
Dr Radha Mohan Das Agrawal	Gorakhpur Urban	0	1	1
Dr Vimlesh Paswan	Bansgaon	0	1	1
Shobha Singh Chauhan	Bikapur	1	0	1
Sangeeta Yadav	Chauri Chaura	1	0	1
Sanjay Yadav	Sikanderpur	1	0	1
Sanjeev Raja	Aligarh	1	0	1
Sakendra Pratap Verma	Kursi	0	1	1
Saurabh Srivastava	Varanasi Cantonment	0	1	1
Hemlata Diwakar Kushwaha	Agra Rural	0	1	1
Ajit Pal Singh	Sikandra	1	0	1
Vijay Kumar Rajbhar	Ghosi	1	0	1
Saroj Sonkar	Balha	1	0	1
Sangeeta Chauhan	Naugawan Sadat	1	0	1
Anand Swarup Shukla	Ballia Nagar	0	0	0
Indra Pratap Tiwari	Goshainganj	0	0	0
Kushagra Sagar	Bisauli	0	0	0
Rajeev Tarara	Dhanaura	0	0	0
Veer Vikram Singh	Katra	0	0	0
Shailesh Kumar Singh 'Shailu'	Gainsari	0	0	0
Shyam Dhani	Kapilvastu	0	0	0
Sanjay Kumar	Chail	0	0	0
Sanjay Singh Gangwar	Pilibhit	0	0	0
Sandeep Kumar Singh	Atrauli	0	0	0
Suresh Kumar Khanna	Shahjahanpur	0	0	0
Kunwar Sushant Kumar Singh	Barhapur	0	0	0
Harshvardhan Bajpai	Allahabad North	0	0	0
Shashank Verma	Nighasan	0	0	0

Source: http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/Members/main_members_en.aspx#/partyWiseMLA/1/17

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