BJP Calls Interim Budget 2024-25 ‘Encouraging’, Oppn Terms it ‘Anti-people’ | Check Reactions – News18

The interim finances for 2024 was offered by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday. This interim finances is a short lived monetary plan offered by the federal government when it doesn’t have the time or mandate to current a full finances.

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While BJP leaders referred to as the Interim Budget 2024-25 “encouraging” and “empowering”, opposition leaders expressed disappointment calling it an “anti-people budget”.

The key highlights of the Interim Budget 2024-25 embrace “no changes” to the taxation system — each direct and oblique — together with import duties.

FM Sitharaman mentioned that the “target is to reduce the fiscal deficit to below 4.5 per cent by Fiscal Year 2026”.

BJP Leaders React to Interim Budget 2024-

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh referred to as it an “encouraging” finances and mentioned, “We are fully confident that we will achieve the target of becoming a developed nation by 2047.”
• BJP MP Poonam Mahajan confused that the interim finances 2024 has empowered the poor, girls, farmers and youth, and mentioned, “A woman empowering the nation under the leadership of PM Modi who has always believed in that the country has to go forward with women leading the country. We are empowering – Garib, Mahila, Kisan, Yuva- for Viksit Bharat….”
• Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jagdish Devda welcomed the finances and mentioned, “It is good and should be welcomed. The poor, women, youth, and farmers, all have been taken care of in this budget. Madhya Pradesh will also get the benefit of the schemes…”
• Union Minister VK Singh mentioned, “…Everything will be for ‘Vikshit Bharat’…everything has been discussed in the budget to strengthen the economy…”
• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari mentioned, “Finance Minister’s Budget is aimed to strengthen India’s economic sector, in line with PM Modi’s resolve to make India the third largest economy of the world…This is a budget to speed up country’s development and increase employment…”
• BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy mentioned, “In the interim budget, you don’t bring any new proposals and it is a process of seeking the approval of parliament for the expenditure which you have to incur in next few months as we are going for the next election…”
• Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar referred to as the finances a superb abstract of the qualitative and quantitative transformation of the Indian financial system within the final 10 years.

Opposition Leaders React to Interim Budget 2024-

• Congress MP Manish Tewari mentioned, “It is a ‘vote-on-account’ which has only one purpose to keep the government solvent for the first quarter of the current fiscal year. What’s worrying is that there is a budget deficit of Rs 18 lakh crores. This means that the government is borrowing for its expenditure. This number is only going to increase next year.”
• All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) Debangshu Bhattacharya Dev mocked the finances saying, “We can only hope for the best because ‘Phir hogi paison ki Hera Pheri’.”
• Calling it BJP’s ‘farewell budget’, SP chief and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav mentioned, “If any budget is not for development and any development is not for the people then it is useless. The BJP government has created a shameful record by completing a decade of anti-people budgets, which will never be broken again because now is the time for a positive government to come. This is BJP’s ‘farewell budget’.”
• Congress MP Shashi Tharoor focused Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s finances speech calling it “one of the shortest on record and very disappointing”.
• “It was one of the shortest speeches on record in the Budget. Not very much came out of it. As usual a lot of rhetorical language, very little concrete on implementation…She talked about foreign investment without acknowledging that that investment has come down significantly. She talked about a number of things which are couched in vague language like ‘confidence’ and ‘hope’ and so on. But when it comes to hard figures, very few figures available…This is going to be a very disappointing speech in terms of being couched entirely in generalities and without enough substance nor any willingness to address the specific problems of the economy…” Shashi Tharoor mentioned.
• Congress MP Karti Chidambaram reacted to Interim Budget 2024-25 and mentioned, “Mere administrative exercise to ensure that the government of India has the requisite funds to carry on its normal business until the new parliament is constituted and a new government is formed. And that’s what they have done, except for making their obligatory self-congratulatory, self-praise phrases, nothing else is there and nothing should have been there, and rightly so. Nothing is there.”
• Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) MP NK Premachandran famous that nothing is talked about about unemployment within the Interim Budget 2024-25.
• “Unfortunately, the finance minister is talking about the achievements of the last ten years. It is a temporary budget. Even then it is not giving any vision…The unemployment position in the country is alarming and nothing is mentioned about this…It is only an eloquent speech made by the finance minister…” Premachandran mentioned.