New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday made a scathing attack at the government after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget in the Parliament and said that the budget is insipid, lacks stimulus for growth and has no clear roadmap for job creation.
“The main issue facing is unemployment. I didn't see any strategic idea that would help our youth get jobs. I saw tactical stuff but no central idea. It describes government well, lot of repetition, rambling-it is mindset of government, all talk, but nothing happening,” Rahul Gandhi told media while leaving the Parliament after attending the Budget session in Lok Sabha.
“No strategic idea and a lot of tactical stuff, redundant ideas. More than 2 hours and 45 minutes of a speech and lot of repetitions, lot of rambling, all talk and the country is suffering. You know what is going on you know what is the future and nothing happened here to help you,” he added.
The Congress leader also said that the budget was very long and it was probably the longest speech ever which saw tactical stuff but no central idea.
He said that it was over 2.5 hours long, but there was no strategic issue. “The government's approach is visible -- hollow,” Gandhi added.
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel said that at a time when India is in the midst of an economic downturn, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech focuses more on praising the prime minister rather than helping the common citizen.
"Longest Budget speech is also the most lacklustre budget ever. After Acche Din, New India, it now appears that the government has also abandoned the target of USD 5 trillion economy," Patel said in a series of tweets.
The second full-fledged budget of the Modi government 2.0 was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday.
In the longest Union Budget speech in history, Sitharaman talked about tax regime, finance, agriculture, irrigation, water, sanitation, healthcare, education, infrastructure, women, digital connectivity among others.
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