So retro, so UPA

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has made a habit of courting controversy. In 2009, he claimed that electrification was the best form of population control. Indians with working television sets were likely to be too distracted to procreate, was Azad’s argument. After identifying the contraceptive properties of television — which, he claimed, would reduce India’s population growth by as much as 80 per cent — in 2011, Azad defined homosexuality as “unnatural” and referred to it as a disease.

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