Opposition terms interim budget as BJP’s ‘farewell budget’

New Delhi: The Opposition called the interim budget that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented today as the BJP’s ‘vidai (farewell) budget’, NDTV reported.

Nirmala Sitharaman in her 6 th budget speech promised ‘economic reforms’ aiming at accelerating growth.

Alongside calling it as the ‘farewell budget, the Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP government completed a decade of anti-people budgets.

‘If any budget is not for development and any development is not for the people then it is useless. 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 BJP's 'farewell budget',’ Akhilesh Yadav said in a post on X as per the report.

Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that the government is working on the principle of 'reform, perform, and transform', to make India a developed country by 2047.

Uddhav Thackeray responded that ‘The Modi government presented its last budget. Want to thank the finance minister because she did it with a very heavy heart and presented the last budget’.

Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said that Nirmala Sitharam poured ‘cold water’ on people’ expectations.

Meanwhile, PM Modi said that the budget would empower what he said four pillars of developed India: the young, poor, women and farmers.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said the budget only aims to woo people for votes.

‘Is this a budget to provide employment to the unemployed... This budget is nothing but to woo people in this year's Lok Sabha elections,’ Chowdhury was quoted as saying.