AAP sees religious discrimination in NDA govt's Muslim students scholarship scheme

The AAP on Thursday accused the BJP-led NDA government of "discriminating" between students on religious grounds by announcing its scheme of providing scholarships to five crore Muslim students over the next five years.

"With Muslim-only scholarship, the Bharatiya Janata Party is continuing appeasement policy of the Congress party. Divisive language used by BJP leaders during election campaign and behaviour post-election reeks of hypocrisy," Singh said at a press conference.

He said while the Aam Aadmi Party welcomed the fact that the government's attention has been drawn to Muslim students, it does not support religious discrimination.

"The Muslim scholarship is being publicised by the government with great fanfare. The AAP welcomes the fact that the NDA government's attention has been drawn to Muslim students. But the question is why discriminate between students on religious grounds? How is this different from the same appeasement politics that BJP used to accuse the Congress of indulging in?