Budget 2024: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubs Union budget politically biased, anti-poor
The Hindu
West Bengal CM criticizes Union Budget 2024-25 as politically biased, anti-poor, and depriving the state of funds.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 23 dubbed the Union Budget 2024-25 as "politically biased and anti-poor" and slammed the Centre for "depriving" the state.
The chief minister wondered what wrong West Bengal committed that it had been "deprived" by the Centre.
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"Bengal has been completely deprived in this Union budget. This doesn't look into the interest of the poor. The budget is politically biased. This is directionless and has no vision. It is only to serve a political mission," she told reporters on the state assembly premises.
Other Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders also said that the Budget has nothing for West Bengal and called it a budget for the ruling NDA and not for India.
The MPs of the Mamata Banerjee-led party also staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha opposing the budget.
Senior TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee called it a “kursi bachao budget (budget to save the chair)“.