Centre has talent to dress up its failures as successes: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor

01 Feb 2024 Evaluate

Opposition Congress leaders expressed disappointment at the interim budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament today. 

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor called the budget speech as ‘short’ and ‘disappointing’, and said this government has a ‘talent for dressing up its failures as successes’. He said, ‘The budget speech was short and disappointing. There was very little of substance. Lot of issues not touched upon -- the incredibly high unemployment -- you cannot talk of empowering the youth when 45 per cent youth unemployment exists in the country.’ Tharoor claimed that while Sitharaman talked about FDI, she did not acknowledge that FDI has gone down from 3.6 per cent in UPA's time to less than one per cent of GDP today. He also said there was absolutely no mention of any of the failures of the government.

Meanwhile, Congress MP Manish Tewari said, ‘This budget only has one motive, which is that the Centre can work easily in the first quarter of this fiscal year. The main topic of concern is that in the last fiscal year which will end on 31 March 2024, there is a budgetary deficit of Rs 18 lakh crore.’ Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said it was a mere administrative exercise to ensure that the government of India has the requisite funds to carry on its normal business until a new government is formed. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi criticised that the budget did not include anything for the middle class and the poor.


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