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The opposition INDIA bloc MPs held a protest in the Parliament complex on Wednesday, against the Union Budget, presented on Tuesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Opposition leaders have termed the budget as a discriminatory budget that only appeased allies of the BJP. Rejecting the budget, the opposition said that it doesn’t provide fair share to other states of country.
“Opposition virodhi kursi bachao Budget murda baad” slogans were raised by the INDIA bloc leaders as they protested holding placards in the Parliament building claiming that the Budget is “discriminatory” in nature. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party General Secretary KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, TMC MP Dola Sen were seen participating in the protest.
“This is a deceitful Budget and it is injustice…,” Congress chief Kharge said speaking to reporters during the protest.
Chief Ministers of opposition-ruled states also announced boycott of the NITI Aayog meeting citing the discrimination made in thye budget.
On whether he will be participating in the General Discussion of the Budget, Kharge said, “We will protest and then we will see.” Earlier on Tuesday, the INDIA bloc’s Floor Leaders (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha) held a meeting at Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence.
Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said, “The concept of the budget has already been destroyed by this year’s Union Budget. They have completely discriminated against most of the states. So the INDIA alliance meeting was held on how to oppose it.”
After the meeting, Congress MP Pramod Tiwari said they will hold the protest as the government has presented the “BJP’s budget”. “We discussed the budget. Wherever there is a non-BJP government, the budget has been blacked out. In the name of development, there is nothing. we will hold a protest tomorrow in the Parliament regarding this. We will raise our voice inside the Parliament also. This is not the budget of the BJP, it is the budget of the whole country, but they have presented it as if it is BJP’s budget,” he said.
