India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma.
Now, tremendous politics has started regarding the budget. The opposition party MPs protested outside the Parliament calling the budget discriminatory, then raised this issue inside the Parliament. Everyone is upset about why Bihar and Andhra Pradesh were given more importance in the budget. In the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that this budget has been made to save the Modi government, not for the development of the country, leave alone the states ruled by the opposition parties, even the BJP ruled states did not get anything in the budget. There was a lot of uproar during the speech of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee in the Lok Sabha. Abhishek Banerjee said that this budget has been made by two people, for the happiness of two people, there is nothing in it for 140 crore people. Actually, the opposition parties had already decided the strategy. In the morning, most of the MPs of the opposition parties reached the Parliament premises with placards and banners in their hands and sloganeering started. INDIA alliance leaders like Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Kalyan Banerjee, Raghav Chadha, Arvind Sawant, Sanjay Raut, M. Thambidurai, Hanuman Beniwal, Dola Sen were present in this protest.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said that Nirmala Sitharaman has focused on only two states in the budget and has ignored all other states. Kharge said that wherever BJP has lost, those states have been ignored. This is against the federal structure of the country. If such injustice happens, how will the country move forward. As soon as Nirmala Sitharaman stood up, Kharge signaled a walkout and all the opposition MPs walked out of the House shouting slogans. The Finance Minister said that Congress has ruled for so many years, it knows very well that there are some limitations in the budget speech. Therefore, it is not possible to name all the states. But this does not mean that injustice has been done to any state. Sitharaman said that Congress leaders should tell whether the names of all the states were taken in every budget during the Congress era.
Sitharaman said that the Bengal government has not been implementing many schemes of the central government for the last ten years and here they accuse of injustice with Bengal, this is not right. Although no leader of Trinamool Congress spoke so effectively on the issue of Bengal in Rajya Sabha, but in Lok Sabha, Abhishek Banerjee fiercely attacked the central government in a speech of about 55 minutes. During Abhishek’s speech, there were many arguments between the ruling party and the opposition. Abhishek Banerjee explained the budget in two lines. He said that this is not a budget of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, but a budget with the slogan ‘Jo Hamare Saath, Hum Uske Saath’. This budget has been made to please only two people, there is nothing in the budget for anyone else. Abhishek Banerjee said that since BJP has lost in Bengal, enmity has been created with the people of Bengal, this budget is not a budget of satisfaction, but a budget of appeasement of two people.
Samajwadi Party MP Dharmendra Yadav also spoke in the same tone as Abhishek Banerjee. When Dharmendra Yadav was speaking, BJP MP Satish Gautam interrupted him. Dharmendra Yadav got angry at this and made a comment on Satish Gautam, which led to uproar. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the opposition is spreading confusion about the budget. Infrastructure construction, houses for the poor, and schemes for tribals are not for any one state, so it is not right to criticize the budget on the basis that a state was named.
Of all the people who gave speeches on the budget today, Abhishek Banerjee’s speech was the best. Abhishek Banerjee’s arguments were strong. His words had substance. The government had no answer to many of his points. Akhilesh Yadav’s focus was on balancing the caste equations in UP. That is why he gave MPs from all castes a chance to speak. This is his natural politics. But Mallikarjun Kharge’s speech was less on the budget and more on politics. He kept telling that the states where BJP lost were sidelined. Generally, the budget is not analysed on which state the Finance Minister named and which one she left out. However, it is true that Nirmala Sitharaman focused on Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, made both these states happy. If she had not done so, she would have provoked Congress leaders Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu, telling them, look, nothing has been done for you, nothing has been given to you. (Rajat Sharma)
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