By Nidhi Jacob Social media platforms are rife with misleading claims suggesting that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Committee’s working paper states a 7.8% decline in the Hindu population and a 43% rise in the Muslim population between 1950 and 2015. Additionally, multiple posts on X have amplified this claim with communal undertones. BOOM found that the figures in the claims have been cherry-picked to exaggerate the growth of the Muslim population while overlooking the declining trend in growth and fertility rates among all religious groups in recent decades. (Archive link) (Archive …