MALLIKARJUN KHARGE, Congress President:
“The Funds 2024 has been unfair to so many states and other people of this nation, that’s the reason we’re protesting in opposition to it.”
The protest on the steps of the parliament constructing noticed participation not solely from the senior leaders of the Congress celebration but additionally from MPs of assorted different opposition events together with the TMC, Samajwadi Celebration, DMK, and the Left.
SHASHI THAROOR, Congress MP:
“We’re protesting in opposition to the blatant discrimination within the funds. Each MP from each totally different state aside from Andhra and Bihar has one thing to be sad about. Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana. MP’s are declaring about their states being ignored. This type of discrimination shouldn’t be acceptable from a funds that isn’t about two states however is about the entire nation.”
Samajwadi celebration Rajya Sabha MP, Jaya Bachchan slammed the funds, saying it made false guarantees to the youth.
JAYA BACHCHAN, SP MP:
“It’s only the states, even the nation has been disadvantaged. The youth has been given false guarantees which isn’t going to be attainable. 50,000 youth you’re going to give job to, what occurs to 25,000 already ready? Are you going to accommodate them as effectively? Are they included so it turns into 75,000? What is that this garbage? False guarantees which is able to by no means be fulfilled.”
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav expressed his disappointment with the Funds, stating that it had discriminated in opposition to Uttar Pradesh.
AKHILESH YADAV, SP MP:
“Issues which can be stated in the course of the election campaigns, the proposals of their manifestos, and when the time to involves implement the identical within the Funds, you can see some form of discrimination in all places. For such a big state like Uttar Pradesh which voted the BJP to energy for a 3rd time, can also be going through discrimination. You want to cease the floods in Bihar. However with out managing the floods in UP and Nepal first, how are you going to do it in Bihar. That’s why Uttar Pradesh is going through discrimination. Initially, the youth had been deterred from their jobs for 10 years as a result of causes like privatisation and dangerous insurance policies. Now your are giving incentives. What’s the level?”
Many different opposition leaders too referred to as the funds discriminatory.
SAGARIKA GHOSE, TMC MP:
“This isn’t cooperative and aggressive federalism. That is discriminatory federalism. Solely two states, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha (Bihar) that are a part of the coalition authorities have been given all the things, the packages, and the infrastructure bonanza.”
MAHUA MAJHI, JMM MP:
“It’s seems to be like a funds of discrimination and ‘satta bachao’. It’s a solution to please the highest leaders of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh who had helped to kind the federal government. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t have been given any lower than this however what mistake did different states make? This can be a democracy, regardless of the Prime minister and the nation owns is for each celebration and each state.”
PRIYANKA CHATURVEDI, MP, SHIV SENA (UBT)
“The best way central authorities has began a politics of revenge, politics of discrimination, an try and make one state struggle with one other via the medium of funds, it’s unlucky. The Union Funds was not introduced, it was Pradhan Mantri Sarkar Bachao Yojana the place PM Modi has additionally proven his anti-Maharashtra ideology and the way Maharashtra has been going through discrimination within the final 10 years. You fashioned a coalition with the Maharashtra authorities however didn’t give a single penny to them.”
The choice to protest in opposition to the union funds was taken at a gathering of flooring leaders of INDIA bloc events on Tuesday night instantly after union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced the primary funds of the brand new NDA authorities.
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