By IANS
New Delhi : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to oppose any move by the government at the National Development Council (NDC) meeting Wednesday to set aside 15 percent allocation for minorities in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012), terming it “communal budgeting”.
The NDC, a conclave of chief ministers chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is meeting Wednesday to approve the proposals of the 11th Five-Year Plan, including distribution of resources.
BJP President Rajnath Singh has written to his party chief ministers to oppose at the NDC meeting the proposal to reserve 15 percent funds for minorities.
He charged the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of “trying to sow the seeds of discord, disharmony and disintegration” by the move.
Singh apprehended “this could give a fillip to competitive communal demands for budgetary allocations and in the process the holistic approach to national development would become a casualty”.
The BJP president described the Sachar Committee report on the socio-economic condition of Muslims, which is the basis for the proposed move, as “against the spirit of the constitution”.