Bengaluru, May 2 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya on Saturday accused the Karnataka government of trying to "institutionalise religious segregation" through the recently approved Rs 600 crore action plan for the development of 'minority colonies'.

"Under which constitutional provision can public money be earmarked exclusively for "minority colonies" based on religion rather than for all poor and deprived localities based on objective socio-economic criteria?" Surya wrote on X.

The BJP MP has called into question the constitutional validity of the action plan itself, saying that it could contradict Article 14 and Article 15 of the Constitution while guaranteeing equality before the law and prohibiting discrimi...