New Delhi: BJP leaders stood divided over the party's stand on the controversial reservation issue as they met at the BJP national executive on Tuesday.
The differing opinions come even as the draft political resolution supports OBC quotas in higher educational institutions while suggesting the creamy layer be kept out.
Former Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and BJP legislature party leader in Maharashtra Gopinath Munde maintained that the party's stand was "confusing" and "sending wrong signals", party sources said.
The stand could harm the party's interests in south India where OBCs have a substantial population, the sources quoted the Andhra Pradesh leader as having said.
Some leaders are also reported to have demanded action against some central leaders, including V K Malhotra and Sushma Swaraj, for visiting the agitating medicos and siding with the anti-reservationists.
Nevertheless, the party adopted a political resolution endorsing what party President Rajnath Singh had said on quotas in his inaugural address on Monday.
Trying to tread a middle path on the controversial issue, the draft resolution charged the UPA Government with creating social tensions on the reservation issue and asked it to ensure that merit was not squeezed while implementing the
quota regime.
The BJP had supported the Constitutional amendment to provide reservations in higher educational institutions. However, while doing so, anysuggestions that these measures by the international community would or should encourage any military options by anyone.
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