Oppn targets Budget: ‘Band-aid for bullet wounds’, aimed at Bihar polls, offers nothing for poor, jobless

All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput successful complaint of organisation K C Venugopal said the Union Budget for 2025-26 was “for astir parts, a speechmaking of mundane circulars and insignificant tinkering that volition bash thing to revive India’s tottering economy”. “For 11 years successful a row, the authorities has tried to hoodwink the nationalist by giving bare slogans, with nary imaginativeness oregon alleviation for the mediocre and marginalised sections of society,” helium alleged.

“The Budget has sent a connection that this authorities is lone susceptible of indulging successful election-related gimmicks for their politics, but cannot code the terrible economical distress being experienced crossed the state today,” Venugopal said.

He was seemingly making a notation to assorted sops rolled retired by the Budget for the poll-bound Bihar. Sitharaman announced a Makhana Board successful summation to the enlargement of the Patna airdrome and constitution of greenfield airports, the enlargement of IIT Patna, and the mounting up of the Western Koshi Canal Project and the National Institute of Food Technology successful Bihar.

In the Bihar polls, the NDA led by Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, a important state of the BJP some successful the authorities and astatine the Centre, is apt to look a stiff situation from the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan oregon INDIA alliance.

The 2020 Bihar polls had turned retired to beryllium a adjacent election, with the NDA managing to clasp powerfulness by winning 125 retired of 243 seats arsenic against the Magagathbandhan’s 110 seats.

Venugopal said the Budget has “no imaginativeness for occupation creation, thing to amended India’s concern climate, nary MSP warrant for farmers and nary strategy to antagonistic the monolithic inflation destroying budgets of mediate people households”.

He charged that “This fund shows yet different effort astatine destroying MGNREGA arsenic the Centre failed to summation the fund allocated for the strategy that provides a information nett for crores of Indians.”

On Sitharaman’s announcement that nary income taxation volition beryllium payable up to an yearly income of Rs 12 lakh, Venugopal said: “The changes successful income taxation besides are insignificant people corrections aft monolithic taxation coercion and different disastrous policies that the Government itself unleashed connected the mediate class, which LoP Rahul Gandhi ji has been routinely exposing crossed assorted sectors.”

TMC nationalist wide caput and MP Abhishek Banerjee besides targeted the Modi authorities for “focusing” connected the Bihar elections, highlighting that determination was thing for West Bengal successful the Budget.

“There is thing for communal radical successful the Budget. They person presented the Budget with the upcoming Bihar elections successful mind. Last clip arsenic well, each announcements were for Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. Andhra Pradesh elections are over, Bihar polls are upcoming, truthful the authorities is successful focus,”

Abhishek claimed that the TMC-ruled Bengal has “not got thing successful the past 10 years, nor was determination thing today”, calling it “unfortunate”.

DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran called the Budget a “big let-down for the country, particularly for the mediate class”. “Since Bihar elections are coming determination are a batch of announcements for Bihar, again fooling the radical of Bihar,” helium charged.

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said that much than the statistic of the Budget, radical privation to cognize however galore radical died successful the stampede astatine Maha Kumbh successful Prayagraj earlier this week.

SP MP Dimple Yadav said determination was “nothing caller successful the Budget” and that the authorities should “give details of the devotees who mislaid their lives successful Maha Kumbh and explicate the crushed for the tragedy”.

As Sitharaman started her Budget code successful the Lok Sabha successful the morning, respective Opposition members raised slogans, demanding a connection from the authorities connected the Kumbh stampede, and staged a walk-out for a little while.

The CPI said the Budget neglected the “challenges faced by the Indian economy”. “Rising unemployment, inflation, expanding inequality and determination disparities are immoderate of the large issues faced by the Indian radical but the Budget fails to code them. Already the system is successful a atrocious signifier and the worth of Indian rupee has fallen to unprecedented debased level. Foreign indebtedness is increasing,” the enactment stated.

AICC wide caput successful complaint of communications Jairam Ramesh said the system has been suffering from “four related crises” which, helium said, included “stagnant existent wages, deficiency of buoyancy successful wide consumption, sluggish rates of backstage investment, (and) a analyzable and analyzable GST system.” He said the Budget “does thing to code these illnesses”.

“The lone alleviation has been for income taxation payers. What existent interaction this volition person connected the system remains to beryllium seen,” Ramesh added.