Punjab cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday termed the Union Budget as a big disappointment for the common man while calling it anti-people.
Sidhu, interacting with the media-persons on the sidelines of an event at Panjab University, said that the increase in the MSP for crops should be in proportion to the increase in oil prices. “During the past decades, the prices of oil have increased four-fold while MSP has hardly increased two-fold,” he added. On the issue of stubble burning, Sidhu made a strong case for bringing the farmers not indulging in burning of paddy stubble under the MGNREGA scheme and thus incentivizing them.
Sidhu also batted wholeheartedly for a separate budget for the youth as the country has 60 percent youth population which calls for giving prime importance to their needs and aspirations.