West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee
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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 puzzled what mistaken West Bengal dedicated that it had been “disadvantaged” by the Centre.
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“Bengal has been utterly disadvantaged on this Union price range. This does not look into the curiosity of the poor. The price range is politically biased. That is directionless and has no imaginative and prescient. It is just to serve a political mission,” she informed reporters on the state meeting premises.
Different Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders additionally stated that the Finances has nothing for West Bengal and referred to as it a price range for the ruling NDA and never for India.
The MPs of the Mamata Banerjee-led occasion additionally staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha opposing the price range.
Senior TMC chief Kalyan Banerjee referred to as it a “kursi bachao price range (price range to avoid wasting the chair)“.
“This price range is geared toward saving (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi’s place. It’s a price range for the NDA, not for India,” he stated.
“Final time they gave so many tasks to Odisha. Now they (BJP) have received (the Meeting polls within the state), so there’s nothing for Odisha. There’s additionally nothing for Bengal,” Mr. Banerjee informed reporters exterior Parliament.
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TMC nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee stated West Bengal has been disadvantaged of funds.
“You will have seen how West Bengal has been continually disadvantaged by this BJP authorities. Has there been a constructive final result of 12 BJP MPs who’re elected from West Bengal? No. The web result’s zero as a result of West Bengal has been continually tortured and disadvantaged,” he informed reporters.
“What (Chief of Opposition within the West Bengal Meeting) Suvendu Adhikari stated just a few days in the past – ‘jo humare sath, hum unke sath’ – has been proved immediately. Simply to avoid wasting their authorities, they’ve allotted particular packages to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. We do not need any downside with any state getting any allocation, however why ought to West Bengal be disadvantaged?” the Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour informed reporters exterior Parliament.
He stated he’ll communicate on the price range within the Lok Sabha on July 24, including that the individuals of West Bengal will give a “befitting reply” to the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) once more.
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose spoke on related strains and stated they staged a walkout from the Higher Home of Parliament in protest.
“This can be a failed price range. It’s to bribe two of the alliance companions – Bihar and Andhra Pradesh – not a Union Finances. This price range is bribing coalition companions earlier than this authorities implodes,” she informed reporters exterior Parliament.
“We within the TMC have protested towards this anti-Bengal price range. The TMC walked out of the Rajya Sabha. That is anti-federal. You can not sacrifice the federal spirit on the alter of politics. It’s ethically repugnant, constitutionally immoral and economically ruinous,” Ghose stated.
Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale alleged that there’s an “open and shameless” discrimination towards West Bengal within the price range.
“Open and shameless discrimination but once more on this Union Finances. Union Govt excludes solely Bengal from flood aid and reconstruction funds,” he stated in a put up on X.
“Giving funds to different states whereas deliberately ignoring and singling out the individuals of Bengal is one more revenge for BJP’s pathetic efficiency in elections,” Gokhale added.
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“West Bengal contributes important revenues to the Union however faces pathetic concentrating on and exclusion but once more within the Union Finances,” the TMC chief stated.
One other Rajya Sabha MP of the occasion, Sushmita Dev, stated central funds amounting to Rs 1.6 lakh crore are because of West Bengal and questioned how the price range train was being carried out with out the census being held.
“You might be calling the price range historic, however he’s a king who doesn’t know what the inhabitants is. There was no census since 2011. In the event you have no idea the precise numbers, how are you going to make the price range?” she requested.
