'Hindu daughters' need protection and the only way to ensure that is to enforce a two-child policy for all religions, Union minister Giriraj Singh was reported speaking to the The Indian Express.


"Daughters will not be safe and might have to be kept under the veil, like in Pakistan," said the Bharatiya Janata Party leader, according to the report.


The minister of state for micro, small and medium enterprises was speaking at a cultural yatra in Bagaha, West Champaran, and, according to the report, various Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh workers were present in the audience.


The threat, in Singh's mind, emanates from one particular community. In his speech, Singh referred to seven districts in Bihar where "our" (Hindu) population has ostensibly "gone down" and the Muslim population grown. He tried to emphasise his point by warning that if the situation continued unabated, then Hindus would have to keep their daughters under the veil like in Pakistan.