Terming the Union Budget-2024-25 anti-poor, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Tuesday claimed that it had nothing for the weaker section.
“The budget is based on an old pattern made for just a handful of rich people,” she remarked.
The former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh posted on social media platform X: “The Union Budget presented in Parliament today, on its old pattern, except for a handful of rich and wealthy people, has no hope of ‘good days’ for the poor, unemployed, farmers, women, hardworking, deprived and neglected Bahujans of the country to get rid of their troubled lives.”
She added: “This new government also lacks the expected reformist policy and intention towards the tremendous poverty, unemployment, inflation, backwardness prevailing in the country and the uplift of more than 125 crore people belonging to the weaker sections and the basic facilities required for them. Will the provisions in the budget make people happy and prosperous?”
“The development of the country and the uplift of people should not be a maze of figures, but provide basic things like employment opportunities, money in pocket for spending to help them get rid of the troubled life. Everyone should feel the progress together. Development of railways is also very important. The government should give work to every hand like the BSP government did in the past,” the BSP chief said.
