The Congress occasion has launched a scathing assault on the Union Finances 2024, with leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge calling it a “Kursi Bachao” (Save Chair) and “copycat” price range. Rahul Gandhi took to social media platform X to criticize the price range, saying it was designed to appease allies and cronies at the price of different states and the widespread Indian. He additionally accused the federal government of copying from the Congress manifesto and former budgets.
“Kursi Bachao” Finances.
– Appease Allies: Hole guarantees to them at the price of different states.
– Appease Cronies: Advantages to AA with no reduction for the widespread Indian.
– Copy and Paste: Congress manifesto and former budgets,” Gandhi wrote in his tweet.
The opposition occasion has additionally claimed that the federal government has “tacitly” acknowledged “mass unemployment as a nationwide disaster,” and said that the price range is closely influenced by “political compulsions.”
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered the 2024-25 Finances, marking her seventh consecutive presentation, thereby exceeding the file set by former Prime Minister Morarji Desai. This price range is the primary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third time period in workplace.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge echoed comparable sentiments, saying the price range was a “save Modi authorities” price range somewhat than a price range for the progress of the nation. He accused the federal government of creating hole guarantees to its coalition companions and distributing “half-hearted rewadis” (a kind of Indian candy) to dupe them.
Within the Union Finances of 2024-25, Sitharaman introduced that the federal government will launch a scheme to offer internship alternatives to 1 crore youth in 500 high corporations over 5 years.
Kharge additionally listed out a number of areas the place the price range fell quick, together with job creation, farmers’ welfare, Dalit and Adivasi rights, girls’s empowerment, and social welfare schemes. He accused the federal government of getting no intention of accelerating rural wages, offering reduction to the poor, or enhancing girls’s financial capability.
