Accusing the UPA government of bias against the BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh (MP), its chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said the centre was playing narrow party politics.

“It is the constitutional duty of the central government to ensure that there is no politics in matters concerning the development and welfare of the people. The state has clearly received a raw deal and as a result the people were suffering,” he said addressing the media in the capital today.

Chauhan along with his ministers and MLAs was in the capital to meet the prime minister and other central minster and apprise them of the centres skewed policies against the state.

“The situation has turned so grim that we had to protest publicly here in the capital,” he said.

Citing instances of centre’s discrimination against the state he said out of 170 lakh metric tons of coal needed for its thermal power plants, centre had allocated just 136 lakh metric tons.

 MP, he said, was also not getting its due share of allotments under the public distribution system for the below poverty line (BPL) and Antyodaya category. This was due to the improper estimation of the BPL estimation by the centre. Against the actual number of 67.70 lakh BPL household, the centre erroneously puts this figure at 41.25 lakh.  

In case of rural roads, the centre had not granted the construction of a single kilometer for the current financial year he said.