Leaders of INDIA bloc on July 24 are protesting inside the Parliament premises against Union Budget 2024. INDIA bloc MPs, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in Parliament premises. Several MPs of the Congress, TMC, Samajwadi Party, DMK and the Left also joined the protest held on the steps leading up to the Makar Dwar of Parliament.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said, “It is injustice…We will protest…”
On the Union Budget, Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav said “We all were demanding that farmers should get MSP but the support price is given to the alliance partners who are saving their govt, rather than the farmers…The government could not take any concrete step regarding inflation. Uttar Pradesh did not get anything. UP should have got a double benefit from the double-engine government. I think the people of Lucknow have angered the people of Delhi. Its result is visible in the budget. So what is the benefit of the double engine?…”
On this, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman lashed out at the opposition’s claim that the budget was ‘discriminatory’ and said that it was an ‘outrageous allegation’ and a deliberate attempt by the opposition parties led by the Congress to give the people the wrong impression that their states were not allocated funds or schemes.
Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, the Finance Minister said, “…In every Budget, you don’t get an opportunity to name every state of this country…The Cabinet had taken a decision to set up a port on Vadavan. But Maharashtra’s name was not taken in the Budget yesterday. Does this mean that Maharashtra feels ignored? If a particular state is named in the speech, does it mean that programs of GOI don’t go to these states? This is a deliberate attempt of the Opposition led by Congress to give the impression to people that nothing has been given to our states. This is an outrageous allegation…”
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