Ranchi, Feb. 28 -- Opposition parties on Thursday termed Chief Minister Champai Soren government's first budget as "disappointment" and an "anti-poor" exercise. But the ruling parties have hailed the budget and the trade bodies have welcomed several initiatives in the budget.
BJP state president Babulal Marandi called it a budget with short-sighted thinking and anti-development. Babulal said that this budget is only going to loot and plunder the state treasury. It does not include any forward-thinking public welfare schemes. The way for looting has been kept open for the officers by merely copying and pasting the looting schemes. Four years ago, the coalition government had promised to give loan waiver of up to Rs 2 lakh to the farmers of ...