"In the budget, government said if a Muslim student goes for higher education he would be entitled to scholarship. Why is it that there is nothing for a poor Hindu student or a Dalit student? Doesn't it amount to encouraging conversion?" BJP Parliamentary Party leader V K Malhotra said while launching the Opposition attack on the Budget in Lok Sabha.

Accusing the UPA government of resorting to vote-bank politics, he said, "the Prime Minister said Muslims have the first right on government resources. After Aurangzeb, Manmohan Singh is the first person who said so. This is like bringing back Jizya. We believe in justice for all and appeasement to none."

He said that a situation was being created which existed just before the creation of Pakistan.

"No communalisation of budget and no Jizya," he told the House.

Malhotra's assertions generated anger among Treasury Benches who demanded that they be expunged.