British newspaper 'Daily Telegraph', which created a stir on Saturday by reporting that Varun Gandhi intends to follow his father's population control measures, has clarified that he favours a 'softer approach' to family planning.

The paper's South Asia Editor, Dean Nelson, who interviewed the BJP candidate in Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency, has said that Gandhi told him that he wants to take up the issue of population control but that he believes the earlier policy was implemented in a roughshod manner.