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The third day of the budget session of Parliament (on Wednesday) is expected to be stormy as the opposition India Alliance has termed the budget presented today (on Tuesday) as a ‘discriminatory budget’. After the budget was presented in the Lok Sabha, the parties of the India Alliance held a meeting and decided to oppose it in Parliament. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said, “This year’s Union Budget has ended the concept of the country’s budget and most of the states have been discriminated against. Therefore, the parties of the India Alliance have discussed how to oppose it.”
It is believed that in both the sessions of Parliament on Wednesday, MPs of all the parties of the Indian National Congress will protest against the central government. On the other hand, former Odisha Chief Minister and opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief Naveen Patnaik termed the Union Budget presented by Nirmala Sitharaman as ‘anti-Odisha’ and claimed that the Center has ignored the real concerns of the state, while many promises were made for the state in the election manifesto. The big thing is that when the Finance Minister was reading the budget speech, all 9 MPs of Biju Janata Dal walked out of the Parliament.
BJD vice-president and MLA Prasanna Acharya alleged that the Centre has ignored the genuine concerns of Odisha by announcing the completion of Polavaram irrigation project of Andhra Pradesh. He said that it is suspected that completion of Polavaram irrigation project will submerge a large area in Odisha’s tribal-dominated Malkangiri district. Referring to the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Acharya said, “The decision is discriminatory. It shows that the government is taking decisions in favour of Andhra Pradesh, which is ruled by the BJP’s ally. Because the BJP government is dependent on the support of its members.”
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut also took a dig at the Modi government’s budget and said that this is the first time that the budget has been made not for the welfare of the country but to save the government. He said, “What did the common man, farmers, students get from the budget in the last ten years? Earlier the budget was made for only one state Gujarat, now two more states have been added to it…for the first time I have seen that the budget has been made not for the welfare of the country but to save the government.” Let us tell you that in today’s budget, budgetary allocation of several thousand crores of rupees has been made for the states ruled by the two parties supporting the Modi government, TDP and JDU, to please them.
Reacting to the Union Budget, Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi called it a “Kursi Bachao Budget”. “Kursi Bachao” Budget. “Pleasing allies: Empty promises to them at the cost of other states. Pleasing friends: Benefits to AA but no relief to common Indians. Copy and paste: Congress manifesto and previous budgets,” he wrote on Twitter.
Let us tell you that Narendra Modi’s government has been formed for the third time at the center with the support of 12 MPs of JDU headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and 16 MPs of TDP headed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu. In such a situation, it is believed that Naveen Patnaik can now join the campaign of the opposition alliance, through which the opposition parties are going to attack the Modi government. Patnaik has given indications of this by expressing his reaction on the budget. The big thing is that Patnaik was the savior of the Modi government in getting every bill passed in the Rajya Sabha for the last 10 years.
