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Budget 2020: Early Reactions
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Anand Sharma, scoffed at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's claim of ending Inspector Raj as false and a joke.
Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Anand Sharma scoffed at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's claim of ending Inspector Raj as false and a joke. "IT raids have multiplied," he asserted in a tweet. Tax terrorism, Sharma alleged, had "created panic and fear among business leaders."
FM claim on ending Inspector Raj is false and a joke. IT raids have multiplied manifold. Tax terrorism has created panic and fear among business leaders. #Budget2020
— Anand Sharma (@AnandSharmaINC) February 1, 2020
Anand Sharma also said that the Finance Minister failed to explain budgetary maths.
Nirmala Seetharaman has failed to explain the budgetary maths. As revenue receipts till November are only 45% of the budget estimates there is a gaping hole. Flowery language and high-sounding words and platitudes are meaningless. #Budget2020
— Anand Sharma (@AnandSharmaINC) February 1, 2020
Opposition leader in Parliament in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told ANI, "Economy is in tatters, all that Nirmalaji can do is cosmetic surgery because all that BJP govt has been talking about is Pakistan Imran Khan Musalmaan.".
CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury expressed the view that there was nothing substantial to "alleviate people's misery."
Just platitudes & slogans. Nothing substantial to alleviate peoples' misery, the growing unemployment, rural wage crash, farmers' distress suicides and galloping prices. #BudgetSpeech pic.twitter.com/867dB4f4lc
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) February 1, 2020
Delhi chief minister and AamAadmi Party chief, Arvind Kejriwal hoped for higher allocations to Delhi. Budget 2020 would be a test of BJP's concern for Delhi he said.
दिल्ली के लोगों को पूरी उम्मीद है कि केंद्र सरकार बजट में दिल्ली के हितों की रक्षा करेगी। चुनाव के मद्देनजर दिल्ली को और भी ज़्यादा मिलना चाहिए। बजट बताएगा कि भाजपा को हम दिल्लीवालों की कितनी परवाह है।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 1, 2020
Congress spokesman, Sanjay Jha, took a dig at Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, saying her Budget speech had been prepared by Alexa.
Don't criticise the FM for #Budget2020 .
— Sanjay Jha (@JhaSanjay) February 1, 2020
It has been prepared by Alexa.
