While BJP leaders called the Interim Budget 2024-25 "encouraging" and "empowering", opposition leaders expressed disappointment calling it an "anti-people budget"
The interim budget for 2024 was presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday. This interim budget is a temporary financial plan presented by the government when it doesn’t have the time or mandate to present a full budget.
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While BJP leaders called the Interim Budget 2024-25 “encouraging” and “empowering”, opposition leaders expressed disappointment calling it an “anti-people budget”.
The key highlights of the Interim Budget 2024-25 include “no changes” to the taxation system — both direct and indirect — including import duties.
FM Sitharaman said that the “target is to reduce the fiscal deficit to below 4.5 per cent by Fiscal Year 2026”.
BJP Leaders React to Interim Budget 2024-
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh called it an “encouraging” budget and said, “We are fully confident that we will achieve the target of becoming a developed nation by 2047.”
- BJP MP Poonam Mahajan stressed that the interim budget 2024 has empowered the poor, women, farmers and youth, and said, “A woman empowering the nation under the leadership of PM Modi who has always believed in that the country has to go forward with women leading the country. We are empowering – Garib, Mahila, Kisan, Yuva- for Viksit Bharat….”
- Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jagdish Devda welcomed the budget and said, “It is good and should be welcomed. The poor, women, youth, and farmers, all have been taken care of in this budget. Madhya Pradesh will also get the benefit of the schemes…”
- Union Minister VK Singh said, “…Everything will be for ‘Vikshit Bharat’…everything has been discussed in the budget to strengthen the economy…”
- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, “Finance Minister’s Budget is aimed to strengthen India’s economic sector, in line with PM Modi’s resolve to make India the third largest economy of the world…This is a budget to speed up country’s development and increase employment…”
- BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, “In the interim budget, you don’t bring any new proposals and it is a process of seeking the approval of parliament for the expenditure which you have to incur in next few months as we are going for the next election…”
- Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar called the budget an excellent summary of the qualitative and quantitative transformation of the Indian economy in the last 10 years.
Opposition Leaders React to Interim Budget 2024-
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