NEW DELHI: After finance minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
presented the
Union Budget 2024
,
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor
called it “
underwhelming
” adding that no key issues was addressed.
“It is an underwhelming budget. I didn’t hear anything about the key issues facing the
common man
. There is no mention of MNREGA, and insufficient mention of steps taken to improve the income of a common person,” he told ANI.
The Congress MP, however, welcomed the abolishing of Angel tax.
“I welcome only one provision, which is abolishing of tax on angel investors. I had recommended it to Arun Jaitley more than 5 years ago,” he added.
‘PM Sarkaar Bachao Yojana’
Calling it an effort to save the government, Priyanka Chaturvedi said, “I think this budget should be called ‘PM Sarkaar Bachao Yojana’ because they have realised if they want to save this Govt for the next 5 years, they would need their alliance partners to be happy. After denying a special status to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, they have given them funds. Maharashtra continues to be ignored by the Centre. It has become a state where you keep taking in money from.”
