Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for 2024-25. The Mahavikas Aghadi MPs protested at the entrance of the Parliament, as there was no special announcement for Maharashtra. Members of the Shiv Sena-Congress-UBT alliance were also present at the meeting.
Maharashtra Assembly elections are scheduled for 2024. With elections due in a few months, the Modi government was expected to make big announcements for Maharashtra in the budget. However, the Finance Minister did not make a long but simple announcement for Maharashtra in the entire budget speech. Despite Mumbai being the financial capital of Maharashtra, no such announcement was made in the budget.
The central government has made a huge provision for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. But this is not the case in Maharashtra. There was nothing in Mumbai. This made the MP angry. Members of Parliament Varsha Gaikwad, Shobha Bachhav, Vishal Patil, Balwant Wankhede, Pratibha Dhanorkar, Priyanka Chaturvedi and others staged a protest outside the Parliament. This time, the Modi government... Such statements have been made. The opposition party has alleged that the states which are with the Centre have been given a free hand and injustice has been done to those who are against it.
Rs 40,000 crore has been allocated for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. But a big state like Maharashtra has been completely ignored. State Congress president Nana Patole and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar were also present at the meeting. He said there was a contradiction in the budget.
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