Lucknow, 1 Feb: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has praised the union Interim Budget presented in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The Chief Minister wrote on social media platform that the interim budget presented by union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the vision of ‘Developed India’, the resolve of Antyodaya and the ‘road map’ to make ‘New India’ the growth engine of the world.
The Chief Minister said that hearty gratitude to Prime Minister Modi and thanks to the Finance Minister for this public-welfare budget paving the way for making New India a five trillion dollar economy.
Regarding the interim budget presented on Thursday in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav has called it useless in terms of public development. He has reacted to the budget on his social media account ‘X’.
The SP President posted, “The BJP government has created a shameful record by completing a decade of anti-people budgets, which will never be broken again because now is the time for a positive government to come. This is the ‘farewell budget’ of the BJP.”
It is noteworthy that union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the interim budget in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament, today. Economists of the country are calling this budget balanced.
However, there has been no change in the tax. The salaried class does not seem to be getting any benefit, but the defense budget has been increased for the security of the country. Defense expenditure has been increased by 11.1 percent, it will be 3.4 percent of GDP.
At the same time, the budget for providing benefits of rural development and housing scheme to the poor has been increased.
