Budget just a formality: Cong

The Congress has termed the Madhya Pradesh Budget 2015-16 presented in the State Assembly on Wednesday as disappointing and anti-people.

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Arun Yadav reacting over the budget said, “The Budget presented in the State Assembly today is disappointing and the one that is Government document to swindler the people of State.”

Yadav is of the view that the debt burdened and scam ridden State Government had presented the budget in a hurry without any pre preparations. The Government had only done a formality of presenting budget, he added.

He said that the Finance Minister of State Jayant Mallayya had tried to paint rosy pictures before the people of State but had failed to provide any work plan that how those dreams would be realised. The Budget had made mockery of farmers, unemployed, youths and women”s dreams of progress and skills, he added.

Congress MP and former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that the Budget of State was deceit with the people of State. “The State Budget is not in the interest of the people. The state government has overlooked the interest of youths and farmers and has presented a confusing budget that appears like a web.”

Scindia further said that making goods associated with construction of house dearer the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Bharatiya Janata Party Government of the State had shattered common man”s dream of house construction. The Government had proposed to reduce VAT on 40 items but most of them are those items that are not of daily use, if at the place of these items the state government would have reduce the Vat on petroleum products than it could be of big relief for the people of state, he added.

The only Muslim MlA in the state assembly, Congress party’s Arif Aqueel termed the budget as disappointing for the minority community as it does not have any proposal for implementation of Supreme Court order of providing salaries to Imams and Muezzins as per apex court guidelines.