“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.
He said 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 a Muslim or a Christian. Our welfare measures will be based on economic condition of the people,” Singh said.

Expand NDA fold
Confident of NDA’s return to power in the coming general elections, the BJP president said 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, saying, “I am confident that the number of parties in NDA will certainly increase soon.”

Firing a salvo at the UPA government for its “total failure in every front”, Singh said the growing discontentment among common people and rocketing inflation will dethrone the alliance from the power.

Singh said his party was very confident of getting absolute majority in Karnataka. “We are very sure of getting an absolute majority in Karnataka,” he said.