Chennai: DMK president M. K. Stalin has condemned the Centre for presenting full-fledged budget instead of interim one as per the Constitution.
In a statement, the Opposition leader said instead of presenting 'interim budget' Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP Government, submitted the full-fledged budget in the election year. He accused Prime Minister, who is heading the ruling BJP government, of giving scant regard for the Constitution.
Stalin, dubbed the budget as a “cheap diversionary tactic” and added that the financial statement would be a “bad dream” for Prime Minister. The New India in 2022 and 10 projects for vision 203 are nothing but to a gimmick attacking only eyes.
Stalin blamed the Prime Minister for seeking political mileage out of the schemes like the dole for farmers and attacked the government for pegging a lower fiscal deficit.
“Deploying its usual accounting jugglery, the BJP government has pegged the fiscal deficit on a lower scale at 3.4 per cent (of GDP)...the fiscal deficit should have been “4.5 per cent,” he said.
PMK founder leader Dr S. Ramadoss said the budget was prepared with an eye on the coming Lok Sabha election and it was a mix of many welcome steps and some disappointing ones. Welcoming the dole for farmers, he urged the Centre to restructure it by announcing a minimum of Rs 10,000 per hectare per annum for them.
Pointing out various promises in the budge VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan said the budge was nothing but full of lies. The people, who were decided by the BJP government for the past five years, are not going to trust the assurances made in the budge and they are waiting to give them a fitting lesion in the forthcoming Lok Sabha poll.
MDMK general secretary Vaiko dismissed the budget announcements as mere poll promises when the government's days are counted.
He said the Centre has announced schemes that it did not come forward to implement in the past four and a half years.
CPI (M) state secretary K Balakrishnan rejected the budget as 'mere pretension. The Centre had not allotted full fund for the 14 new AIIMS.
CPI state Secretary R Mutharasan said the budge was nothing but rhetoric.
