Targeting the central government for presenting Budget 2024 with a petty mindset, Aam Aadmi Party’s National General Secretary (Organization) and Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak said the budget has been very disappointing as it has neither paid attention to employment, nor does it provide anything for the youth and farmers. The central government has also given step-motherly treatment to Delhi and Punjab in this budget, he added.
Sandeep Pathak also gave information on the issues raised in the INDIA alliance meeting held in Delhi on Tuesday in which the issue of the meeting of NITI Aayog and the health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also came up. In the INDIA alliance meeting, concern was also expressed about the health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in jail, is continuously deteriorating. His sugar level is decreasing again and again. His sugar level is falling below 50. This way, the sugar level falling at night is a big danger to the life of any person. “On this, the LG wrote a letter and said that you (Arvind Kejriwal) are not eating this, you are not eating that. It is a question of a person’s life, and you are making such a cheap joke of it. All the opposition leaders who joined the India Alliance have expressed concern over this and said that Arvind Kejriwal’s life should not be played with,” said the Rajya Sabha MP.
Slamming the budget, Sandeep Pathak said that this budget of the government has no target. “If you have been running the government for 10 years, then you should have a roadmap. You should know which sector to promote. Today the unemployment rate has increased from 7.2 to 9%. Your corporate profits have increased but employment has not increased,” he said.
The AAP National General Secretary (Organization) said forget about the guarantee of MSP to farmers, you have reduced the fertilizer subsidy by 36 percent. The BJP government hates the farmers of the country very much. You are thinking about corporates, but you have not thought about farmers and youth even once. You have no concern with the education and health sector.
Sandeep Pathak said Delhi government spends 25% of its budget on education, while the central government gives less than 2% of its budget to the education sector. “You (BJP) want to keep the youth of the country illiterate. Delhi government gives 15% of its budget to the health sector, while the central government gives less than 1% of its budget to health,” he said.
He further said that Ayushman Bharat has also become a slogan like other Central schemes. You keep a budget of Rs 7000 crores for Ayushman Bharat while the health budget of Delhi government alone is Rs 9000 crores. What kind of a joke is the central government playing with the people of the country. “They have no concern with education, health, employment and farmers, they just want to save their chair,” said Sandeep Pathak.
The AAP National General Secretary (Organization) said the states which are allies of the central government have been given top position in the budget. Why did you think about those states only after the alliance was formed? Why did you not do anything about those states before? You have discriminated against Delhi and Punjab because the governments in these states are not of your allies. “You have withheld the money meant for Delhi and Punjab. You are not the Prime Minister of any one party or any one state, you are the Prime Minister of the entire country. This time the Central Government has presented a budget to save the chair of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has made this budget to save his government, this budget has nothing to do with the people of the country,” he said.