Former St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour has blasted the new reconstruction resolution as "wrong".
The plans introduced by Rangers would see a 14-14-18 team setup with Brora Rangers and Kelty Hearts promoted to the bottom division, joined by colt sides from the Ibrox club and their rivals Celtic.
Record Sport revealed on Monday that Hearts have thrown their support behind the new blueprint as it would keep them in the top flight alongside promoted Dundee United and Inverness.
But Gilmour is unconvinced by the concept and he reckons it's all designed to save the Tynecastle side from dropping out of the Premiership, with the side effect of bloating the league setup with more teams.
Speaking on the BBC's Scottish football podcast, he said: "It’s not all about Hearts.
"If you’re going to go for reconstruction, you have to decide what your objectives are and then look at what the possibilities of reconstruction are. I’ve not seen any objectives put out there.
"We’re just going from one tangent to another, which does make me suspicious is that it's just to save a big club, and Hearts are a big club. I think that’s wrong.
"Of the financial aspect, does this go into the central pot that they’re paying. Because if it does, Rangers and Celtic take about a third of that alone. The money’s an insignificant amount to Celtic and Rangers.
"The other thing I would say is we need more teams like we need a hole in the head like in professional football in Scotland.
"We’re going to increase to 46 teams. Gordon Strachan made the point recently and I agreed with Gordon. We’ve far too many professional teams as such. We’ve got kids all over the country and the better ones need to come through and get the experience of playing Premiership football.
"But we have got thousands of kids tied up in pro youth football who will never be professional footballers as long as they live.
"The whole system of that isn’t right. We need to look at that and that’s why you need to say what your objectives are then look at what plan you can have to get there.
"My concern is we’re now rushing something through in the strangest summer we’ve ever experienced."
