The Union Budget for financial year 2021-’22 evoked contrasting reactions, with the opposition parties criticising it and calling it a pro-corporate move, while the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and Cabinet ministers hailing it as a vision for an “Aatmanirbhar Bharat”.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said instead of giving cash in the hands of the people, the government was selling the country’s assets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “crony capitalist friends”.
Forget putting cash in the hands of people, Modi Govt plans to handover India’s assets to his crony capitalist friends.#Budget2021
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 1, 2021
Many other politicians shared Gandhi’s view. Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad tweeted: “The new budget in simple words … #India_For_Sale.”
NCP’s Maharashtra chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said Union Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman used flowery words in her Budget…