Lucknow, Feb. 1 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday termed the Union Budget as a bundle of false hopes and said it would have been better if the budget was more for the country than the party.

Reacting to the general budget, Mayawati tweeted, "This year's budget is also not much different. No government tells the shortcomings of the previous year and makes a series of fresh promises again, whereas ground reality is that the lives of more than 100 crore people are at stake as it was before. People live on hopes, but why false hopes?"

Mayawati said, "In the country like previously the budgets of the central government kept on coming and going in the last 9 years which announcements, promises, claims and hopes were s...