Hari Om Pandey said necessary measures should be taken at the earliest to curb their population growth.

A senior BJP lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh has said that cases of rape and murder are on the rise because of the growing Muslim population in India.

Plumbing new lows in hate speeches, Hari Om Pandey, a lawmaker from Ambedkar Nagar, also said that soon a new nation like Pakistan will be carved out of India if the government failed to curb the Muslim population.

"Terrorism, rapes, cases of sexual harassment are prevailing in India only because of the rising Muslim population. If one looks closely, there is a rapid increase in the percentage of Muslims since the time of independence," said Mr Pandey.

The increased population, he said, would result in unemployment and stagnant economic growth and ultimately, anarchy in India.

Mr Pandey thinks there should be a law in parliament. "I believe that a bill on population control must be introduced in the parliament in order to save India from another dreadful partition," he said.