The Delhi Congress and the AAP on Thursday hit out at the Interim Union Budget 2024-25, saying the budget was “silent” on the worst-affected sectors like employment, price rise, education and health.
Delhi minister and AAP leader Atishi said the Narendra Modi-led government failed to bring down inflation.
Taking a dig at the announcement of creation of over 55 lakh new jobs in the budget, she said the government is yet to fulfill its 2014 promise of providing 2 crore jobs every year. She said during the past 10 years of Modi rule, even 1 crore people have not been given jobs.
The minister further accused the Centre of giving step-motherly treatment to the Delhi government, saying given the amount of tax paid by the residents, at least Rs 15,000 crore should have been allocated to the city. She also accused the Centre of discriminating against the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely also came down heavily on the BJP dispensation, saying “it was silent on the worst-affected sectors like jobs, employment and price rise”.
“The interim budget clearly indicates that BJP’s ‘Achhe Din’ is not for the common people, but a few chosen ones. The government has neglected employment generation, small and medium industrialists and traders, factory owners, women, youth, labour and farmers — who do not figure in the scheme of things of the BJP government,” he said.
Lovely added that it was disappointing that the finance ministry had made less allocation for education, agriculture, health and public welfare. He said the Union government spent taxpayers’ money for grandiose structures which would be of little use to the common people.