New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Congress MP Dharamvira Gandhi on Friday claimed the Union Budget 2025-26 failed to address farmers' grievances and tried to maintain fiscal deficit at the cost of social sector schemes. Initiating the discussion on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha on behalf on Congress, the Patiala MP also called it "unilateral" in nature as states were "not allowed to participate in the Budget making process". The expenditures towards health and education were stagnating, and the government contained fiscal deficit at the cost of social sector schemes, he claimed.
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee alleged that the NDA Government has mastered the art of taking from the poor and giving to the wealthy elite, with the pattern resemblin...