‘Band-aid for bullet wound’, ‘driven by Bihar elections’; how Opposition reacted to Budget 2025

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman offered her eighth consecutive Union Funds in Parliament on Saturday, 01 February 2025. As soon as she started reading out the budgetary speech, the Members of Parliament from the opposition parties staged a symbolic trudge out in the Lok Sabha as the Opposition termed Funds 2025 “biased”

The Opposition mentioned the Funds modified into once carefully in the favour of the states which will be beneath the governance of the ruling BJP and NDA, equivalent to Bihar.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge criticised the funds for neglecting non-NDA states as he claimed that it modified into once an anti-folks funds that did no longer attain justice to diverse regions of the nation.

Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi mentioned the authorities of putting a “band-attend for bullet wounds” adding that the authorities is bankrupt of ideas.

A band-attend for bullet wounds!

Amid global uncertainty, solving our economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift.

But this authorities is bankrupt of ideas.

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 1, 2025

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal carefully criticised the authorities for no longer waiving off house loans and automobile loans of the center class and farmers.

The old Delhi Chief Minister posted on X: “A giant a part of the nation’s treasury is spent on waiving off the loans of some properly off billionaires. I had demanded that it is launched in the funds that from now on, the loans of any billionaire will no longer be waived off. With the money saved from this center class house loans and automobile loans should be waived off; farmers’ loans should be waived off and Profits tax and GST tax charges should be halved. I'm sad this modified into once no longer completed.”

देश के खजाने का एक बड़ा हिस्सा चंद अमीर अरबपतियों के क़र्ज़े माफ़ करने में चला जाता है। मैंने माँग की थी कि बजट में ये ऐलान किया जाए कि आगे से किसी अरबपति के क़र्ज़ माफ़ नहीं किए जाएँगे। इस से बचने वाले पैसे से

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— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 1, 2025

Meanwhile, AAP MP Sanjay Singh claimed that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led authorities intends to proceed relinquishing big sums for industrialists.

“AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal had demanded the authorities to teach that this is able to terminate waiving off company loans and salvage greater the Rs 16 lakh crore that Modi ji has forgiven of his capitalist chums. That money can comprise been feeble to halve GST and earnings tax charges—but no such announcement modified into once made. This clearly reveals that the Modi authorities intends to proceed waiving big sums for capitalists,” Singh mentioned.

“They've launched reduction for the salaried class earning up to Rs 12 lakh, but what about small and medium industry owners? How will they salvage any reduction?” he added.

Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP mentioned that the Union Funds modified into once made conserving the upcoming Bihar assembly elections in mind and West Bengal didn't salvage any sops.

“There may be nothing for the total man in the funds. As that there are elections in Bihar this year, so conserving that in mind, the funds has been offered for Bihar. All the pieces has been given to Bihar,” mentioned Banerjee.

Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav mentioned that nothing new modified into once equipped in the Union Funds whereas celebration supremo Akhilesh Yadav stressed that the lives lost in the Mahakumbh stampede are extra vital than budgetary figures.