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It’s for the rich, bizmen, rues Congress
The Congress on Friday criticised that the vote on account budget presented by the Union government in the Parliament on Friday is for the rich and the businessmen
Hyderabad: The Congress on Friday criticised that the vote on account budget presented by the Union government in the Parliament on Friday is for the rich and the businessmen.
Addressing the media, TPCC working president Ponnam Prabhakar and Congress Kisan Cell national vice president M Kodanda Reddy said that the Centre did not address the issues of the farmers. Ponnam Prabhakar said that the budget was aimed at securing votes and described it as BJP Vote Budget. He said that the NDA government presented the budget against the traditions.
He said that there was nothing great about the income tax sops being announced by the Centre as the exemptions would be given every year. He alleged that the NDA government tried to divert the attention of the people. He said that reducing the income tax to the companies which have Rs 250 crore annual turnover from 30 per cent to 25 per cent is aimed to help the rich and the business community. Though the Centre got Rs 6 lakh crore revenue in the past four years through the petrol and diesel sales, no benefit was done to the people.
Prabhakar criticised the Centre for holding back the report of National Sample Survey Agency on unemployment rate. He alleged that the TRS has failed to achieve the implementation of promises made to the State in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act. The State was not benefited even by a sing paisa through the National Highways Development Programme.
Kodanda Reddy alleged that for the past four years and nine months the Centre was mute spectator to the issues being faced by the farmers. At the end of the term it has shown some concern.
He said that the Modi government failed to keep its word on giving 50 per cent more as minimum support price over the cost of production to the farmers. He said that the TRS and the BJP have cheated the people. In a statement MLC Mohammad Ali Shabbir said that the budget was just like a balloon. He said that the budget has ignored the needs of students and the unemployed.
Shabbir said that AICC president Rahul Gandhi has rightly proposed Universal Income Guarantee scheme. He said that the Modi government has circumvented to divert the attention of the people from the issues.
