Chandigarh, March 18 -- Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the budget presented by the BJP government on Monday was full of empty rhetoric and jugglery of statistics.

Reacting to the budget speech of chief minister Nayab Singh Saini the Congress leader said the government decreased the budget of all the departments providing essential services, including agriculture, irrigation, education, health, energy, transport, public health, cooperation and home. Not only this, he said, this budget is silent on all the issues like BJP's election promises of providing two lakh jobs, giving MSP to farmers, controlling inflation, Hooda said.

Hooda said BJP had promised to give farmers a rate higher than MSP on crops like paddy a...