Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has slammed the Union Budget 2021 calling it “fake, anti-farmer, anti-people, anti-country.”
Speaking at a rally in North Bengal Banerjee on Monday said the Budget has been prepared with an eye on the elections adding it would bear no fruit but only hardship for the people of the country.
Singling out the Government’s disinvestment and FDI initiative Banerjee said “they are selling away the LIC, BSNL, Rail, SAIL, GAIL …the jobs of people are not secure … like Notebandi (demonetization) one day they will introduce Bankbandi (closure and privatization of banks) throwing out the entire economy asunder.” The BJP will finally sell out the entire country Banerjee said asking the people to “sell (defeat them) them before they sell out the country.”
Attacking the BJP Government for introducing cess on petro products Banerjee said “such an exercise will finally lead to tremendous inflation … the price of eatables including food grains will go up incredibly and this Government will remain responsible for that.”