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'RSS vaccine': Muslim students in Assam flee schools fearing forced sterili.

Classes in three schools in Guwahati had to be called off much earlier than their scheduled time as more than 80 percent of the students were taken back by their parents in fear after a rumour spread that the BJP led government in Assam is going to sterilise the Muslim students to control birth rate.

But suddenly a number of guardians came to the school and informed that they want to take back their students to their homes, as they feared that the students will be sterilised in the school in the pretext of vaccination," said Manoj Senapati, a teacher in one of the schools.

But even such programme was not there in the school on Tuesday," he said.

In no time nearly 80 percent of the students left school," Senapati said.

But soon after the government launched the drive rumours spread in nook and corner of the state that the students will be sterilised to control birth rate among the Muslims in the pretext of vaccination.

The high birth rate among the Muslims in Assam has become a part of the states political narrative, with every political party trying to derive electoral dividend out of it.

9 percent in 2001 to 34.

Meanwhile, Samir Sinha, principal secretary in the health and family welfare department has requested the police to conduct a probe to ascertain the source of the rumor.

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