JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said the Union Budget will prove to be a budget to increase inflation, to fill the pockets of industrialists and to empty the pockets of common man, farmer and labourer.
He said new employment figures have been presented in the Budget, but no concrete action plan has been made for it. “Its fate will also be similar to the promise of two crore jobs per year,” the chief minister said.
“The citizens of Rajasthan, who gave 25 MPs to the NDA from this Budget, have been completely disappointed. No announcement has been made for national project status to Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP), 90:10 ratio of Centre-State expenditure in Jal Jeevan Mission, Jaisalmer-Kandla railway line and establishment of MEMU coach in Gulabpura,” he said.
Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasra said the Union Budget has “disappointed” youths, farmers and the common man. Terming the Budget as directionless, he also said Rajasthan “got nothing in the Budget”.
“Entire country is agitated over inflation, but there was not a single announcement by the FM on controlling the inflation,” he said.
Former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot in his reaction to the budget said, “the budget has been completely disappointing for the common man. This budget "with inflation - without jobs" has left the youth of the country frustrated and disappointed as most of the GDP is going into the pockets of the capitalists.”
He said that not a word was spoken in the budget for the poor, youth and unemployed. A vision of 25 years has been presented in the name of 75 years of Independence, whereas no account of the announcements of the last 7 years including 3 years of this tenure has been presented.
