NDA would cancel all schemes of UPA to "appease a particular community"

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that if National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes to power at the Centre in next general elections, it will cancel all the schemes being implemented by the United Progressive Alliance(UPA) government to "appease a particular community".

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that if National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes to power at the Centre in next general elections, it will cancel all the schemes being implemented by the United Progressive Alliance(UPA) government to "appease a particular community".

"If NDA comes to power at the Centre in the coming Lok Sabha polls, we will cancel all those schemes announced by the UPA government on the basis of religion to appease a certain section," BJP President Rajnath Singh said in an interview.

He said that the welfare measures announced by the Centre to provide benefit to a particular community was "dangerous" for the country and NDA will withdraw all those schemes straightway. He did not name the community but the reference was apparently to Muslims.

"We will not give scholarship to somebody on the basis of whether he is Muslim or Christian. Our welfare measures will be based on economic condition of the people," Singh said, strongly criticising certain schemes in 2008 Union budget.

Confident of NDA's return to power in the coming general elections, the BJP president said that talks are going on with many political parties so as to expand the NDA fold. "Talks are going on with many political parties to expand the NDA," he said.

Singh, however, declined to name the parties with whom talks are in progress, cryptically saying "I am confident that the number of parties in NDA will certainly increase soon."

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