LUCKNOW, Feb. 4 -- Calling the Union Budget a "visionary document" aligned with the goal of a developed India by 2047, BJP state president and Union minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary on Tuesday said it would significantly accelerate infrastructure, connectivity and defence-linked projects in Uttar Pradesh.

Addressing media persons at the BJP headquarters here, Chaudhary highlighted the budget's provisions on high-speed rail corridors, a freight corridor, waterways and defence infrastructure, saying these would give fresh momentum to the state's development.

"Seven new high-speed rail corridors have been gifted to the country, of which the Delhi-Varanasi and Varanasi-Siliguri corridors will particularly benefit Uttar Pradesh...