INDIA Bloc Leaders Protest Against ‘Discriminatory’ Union Budget, Demand Equal Treatment To All States

New Delhi: Leaders of the INDIA bloc on Wednesday staged protest in opposition t ‘discriminatory’ Union Funds 2024 and demanded equal therapy to all states the entire procedure by technique of the Parliament. Congress President and Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge says, “Many didn’t get justice (in Union Funds). We are combating for justice.”

Samajwadi Occasion MP Akhilesh Yadav says “All of us had been demanding that farmers should get MSP then as soon as more the booklet payment is given to the alliance companions who're saving their govt, alternatively of the farmers…The govt may would favor to now now not take any concrete step great to inflation. Uttar Pradesh did now now not get a specific thing. UP have to have gotten a double reap the benefits of the double-engine govt. I bear in mind the humans of Lucknow have angered the humans of Delhi. Its conclusion effect is viewed the entire procedure by technique of the funds. So what's the benefit of the double engine?…”

On the Union Funds, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says “There may maybe be little or no for many states. There had been a pair of expectations for Kerala, broadly the entire procedure by technique of the fitness area, but all of them have now now not been fulfilled. Every nation has its very possess problem to aspect to…”

The resolution to protest in opposition t Funds 2024 turn out to be taken at a meeting of ground leaders of INDIA bloc parties at the ten Rajaji Marg place of dwelling of Congress president and Chief of Opposition the entire procedure by technique of the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday nighttime.

Kharge, Chief of Opposition the entire procedure by technique of the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress’ deputy chief in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari, Congress’ deputy chief in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi, NCP (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut, TMC leaders Derek O’Brien and Kalyan Banerjee, DMK’s T R Baalu, JMM’s Mahua Maji, AAP’s Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh, and CPI(M)’s John Brittas, among others, attended the meeting. Congress necessary secretaries Okay C Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh had been also current the entire procedure by technique of the meeting.

“The principle of a funds has already been destroyed by technique of this year’s Union Funds. They have gotten definitely discriminated in opposition t most of the states. So necessary sentiment of the INDIA bloc meeting turn out to be we deserve to protest in opposition t this,” Venugopal told reporters after the meeting.

Later, in a post on X, Venugopal observed, “The Union Funds supplied as of late turn out to be extraordinarily discriminatory and risky, which definitely goes in opposition t the necessities of federalism and fairness that the Union Authorities deserve to comply with.”

In protest, Congress chief ministers will likely be boycotting the NITI Aayog meeting scheduled for July 27. “This govt’s procedure is just antithetical to Constitutional necessities. We are capable to now now not take part in an event it specifically is entirely designed to hide the true, discriminatory colors of this regime,” he observed.

Congress MP Pramod Tiwari alleged that the funds had “blacked out” states where there are non-BJP governments.

“We are capable to retain a protest the next day the entire procedure by technique of the Parliament great to this. We are capable to lift our voice inside of Parliament and out of doors also…It be now now not the funds of the BJP, or not it's some distance the funds of the entire u . s ., but they've supplied it as if or not it's some distance BJP’s funds…This funds is againt the federal building of the u . s .,” he alleged.