"Nothing but to woo people in Lok Sabha election": Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Interim Budget

New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): After the announcement of the Interim Budget 2024-25 today, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that it is nothing but to woo people in this year's Lok Sabha elections.
"Is this a budget to provide employment to the unemployed? This budget is nothing but to woo people in this year's Lok Sabha elections. Our country has fallen far down in the list of starvation; will this budget help us get out of it?" he said.
Shiromani Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal slammed the BJP and said that this budget was hollow.
"There was nothing for the youth, women, farmers. I saw arrogance when they said that they would present the Budget in July. You cannot take any election for granted," she said.
Newly elected MP from Aam Aadmi Party, Swati Maliwal termed the budget as 'disappointing'.
"This is a disappointing budget. Inflation and unemployment are at their peak in the country but there is nothing about it in the budget. It is a disappointing budget for the common people," she said.
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran told ANI that the Finance Minister took a long time to hail praises but delivery was zero.
"They are going to present a white paper on the previous government. Nothing much has happened in the last 10 years. The people of the country are already disappointed. Moreover, you realise that performance incentives are given to the bridge companies, and not going to the deserving ones. People rejected this budget," he said.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) MP NK Premachandran said that unfortunately, the finance minister is talking about the achievements of the last ten years. It is a temporary budget. "Even then it is not giving any vision. The unemployment position in the country is alarming and nothing is mentioned about this. It is only an eloquent speech made by the finance minister," he said. (ANI)