(UNI) RJD chief Lalu Prasad today dismissed the union budget 2019-20 presented in Lok Sabha as mere ‘basket of lies’ even as deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi countered him by comparing the budget with ‘surgical strike’.
RJD chief Mr Prasad tweeted, “There will be no advantage of decorating basket of lies in the market of gimmicks. People not only listen gimmicks but also understand them. After understanding them, they smile and laugh too. Last gimmick budget”.
Reacting to the union budget, Deputy chief minister Mr Modi compared it with ‘surgical strike’ claiming opposition leaders were unable to speak out on the budget as it contained several provisions for relief of common people.
Mr Modi said that the union budget prepared in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s views touched lives of every section of the society even as special care of farmers, labourers, unorganised sector workers and medium class had been taken.
He said that the union budget would benefit states like Bihar having the population of 91 per cent small and marginal farmers.
Chief of Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP), an ally of grand alliance and former union minister Upendra Kushwaha said that the union budget was ‘anti-youth’ even as it also intended at ‘misleading’ farmers. He said no provision had been made in the budget to ensure quality education to the children of poor parents.
Mr Kushwaha said that the budge also lacked any provision for creating job opportunities even as it also not made any provision for setting up agro-based industries so that farmers could get remunerative prices of their produce.
RLSP chief said that the union budget for 2019-20 would prove last budget of Narendra Modi government as it was not going to return to power. It will prove last ‘gimmick’ budget of the government, he added.
Congress legislature party leader Sadanand Singh said that union budget for 2019-20 was an ‘election budget’ intended at ‘putting balm on the wounds of last five years of Narendra Modi government’. He said the budget was not more than a ‘bluff’.
