Stressing on the urgent need for population control, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath has asked people to rise above sect, caste and religion and think about the same.

He posted a tweet saying, "I request UP's 23 crore population to take inspiration from our prime minister's message, 'Nuclear family is an expression of patriotism'. Spread this message among the masses and make population control a movement."

He also stated that the government wants that everyone gets resources and the quality of life improves. But population control has become a tough challenge in front of the nation.

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Everyone should get good health services, better education, roads, drinking water and other basic facilities and this is possible only when we control our population.

Adityanath's comments come after PM Modi's Independence Day speech where he spoke about population explosion.

Population explosion is a subject our nation must discuss as widely as possible. We owe this to the future generations... pic.twitter.com/SWkne1uvwG Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 15, 2019

He said increasing population may create problems for us and our next generation and that there was need for the Centre as well as state governments to launch schemes to tackle it.

Keeping one's families small is an act of patriotism and those who do so deserve our respect and need to be felicitated, he said.