AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak accused the Central government of giving "step-motherly treatment" to Delhi and Punjab in this budget
AAP general secretary Sandeep Pathak called the Union budget 2024 “disappointing” for “not paying attention to employment, youth or farmers”. The AAP Rajya Sabha MP also accused the Central government of giving “step-motherly treatment” to Delhi and Punjab in this budget.
Slamming the budget, Sandeep Pathak said that it has no target. “If you have been running the government for 10 years, then you should have a roadmap. You should know which sector to promote. Today the unemployment rate has increased from 7.2 to 9%. Your corporate profits have increased but employment has not increased,” he said.
The AAP MP further said, “Forget about the guarantee of MSP to farmers, you have reduced the fertilizer subsidy by 36 per cent. The BJP government hates the farmers of the country very much. You are thinking about corporates, but you have not thought about farmers and youth even once. You have no concern with the education and health sector.”
Sandeep Pathak then stated that the Delhi government spends 25% of its budget on education, while the central government gives less than 2% of its budget to the education sector.
“You (BJP) want to keep the youth of the country illiterate. Delhi government gives 15% of its budget to the health sector, while the central government gives less than 1% of its budget to health,” he claimed.
The AAP leader further said that Ayushman Bharat has also become a slogan like other Central schemes. “You keep a budget of Rs 7000 crores for Ayushman Bharat while the health budget of Delhi government alone is Rs 9000 crores. What kind of a joke is the central government playing with the people of the country? They have no concern with education, health, employment and farmers, they just want to save their chair,” said Sandeep Pathak.
The AAP MP also alleged that the states which are allies of the central government have been given top positions in the budget.
“Why did you think about those states only after the alliance was formed? Why did you not do anything about those states before? You have discriminated against Delhi and Punjab because the governments in these states are not your allies,” he said.
“You have withheld the money meant for Delhi and Punjab. You are not the Prime Minister of any one party or any one state, you are the Prime Minister of the entire country. This time the Central Government has presented a budget to save the chair of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has made this budget to save his government, this budget has nothing to do with the people of the country,” he added.
INDIA Alliance Meeting
Giving information on the issues raised in the INDIA alliance meeting held in Delhi on Tuesday, Sandeep Pathak said that concerns were raised about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s health.
The health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in jail, is continuously deteriorating as his sugar level fell below 50. “On this, the LG wrote a letter and said that you (Arvind Kejriwal) are not eating this, you are not eating that. It is a question of a person’s life, and you are making such a cheap joke of it. All the opposition leaders who joined the India Alliance have expressed concern over this and said that Arvind Kejriwal’s life should not be played with,” said the Rajya Sabha MP.
