Opposition parties on Saturday said budget 2025 has nothing to offer to the common people and the middle class, and the government has brought the document with upcoming Bihar elections in mind. Asserting that the government has no new ideas, the Congress said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is walking on the "worn-out path" and is not willing to break free as its governments had done in 1991 and 2004.

The opposition party said the takeaway from Budget 2025-26 is that the BJP is wooing the tax paying middle-class and the Bihar electorate. Former Congress chief and Leader of Opposition in  Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi slammed the Union Budget as a "band-aid for bullet wounds," saying that the Centre was "bankrupt of ideas". He said solving the economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift.

Addressing a press conference on the Budget, senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram said these announcements will be welcomed by the 3.2 crore tax-paying middle-class and the 7.65 crore voters of Bihar. But for the rest of India, the finance minister had no more than soothing words, punctuated by the applause of BJP members led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said.

Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee said there was nothing for West Bengal in the Budget. "There is nothing for common people in the Budget. They have presented the Budget with the upcoming Bihar elections in mind. Last time as well, all announcements were for Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. Andhra Pradesh elections are over, Bihar polls are upcoming, so the state is in focus," Banerjee told reporters in the Parliament complex.

"As far as West Bengal is concerned, it has not got anything in the last ten years, nor was there anything today. This is unfortunate," he said. DMK Lok Sabha MP Dayanidhi Maran called the Budget a "big letdown" for the country.