BJP seems to have prepared this budget to please its alliance partners and to secure the PM’s chair: Rathore

All India Congress Committee spokesperson Theog MLA Kuldeep Singh Rathore has expressed disappointment over the country’s general budget for 2024-25 and said that the BJP seems to have prepared this budget to please its alliance partners and to secure the Prime Minister’s chair. He has said that the budget is completely directionless in which there is neither any measure to stop rising inflation nor any concrete plan to reduce rising unemployment. There is no mention of the Moe Majboot scheme in this budget towards strengthening the rural economy.
Kuldeep Singh Rathore has termed the general budget presented in the Parliament as a mere document of figures and said that Himachal Pradesh has been neglected in this budget. Relief to disaster-affected Himachal Pradesh has been mentioned in the budget but it is not clear how much and in what form this relief will be given, while the state has suffered a loss of more than 12 thousand crores due to the disaster. He has said that due to the dire economic condition of the state, the state was expecting an economic package, which remained unfulfilled. The industrial development of the state has also been completely ignored.
Rathore said that the gardeners of the state, especially the apple growers, are very disappointed with this budget. He said that he had hoped that the import duty on apples coming from abroad would be 100 percent, but nothing like that happened. Similarly, an attempt has been made to show rosy picture to the farmers in the name of relief in this budget, but the farmers of the country are well aware of the policy and intention of the BJP.
Rathore has criticised the BJP government at the Centre and said that the BJP’s double character is in front of everyone. To appease its alliance partners in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, economic packages have been issued to them while Congress and non-BJP ruled states have been completely ignored in the budget.