Union Budget 2021 is fake, it aims to deceive people: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has sharply criticized the Union General Budget for the next financial year. The Chief Minister targeted the Centre on the issue of price rise. She slammed the union budget as "anti-people" aimed at deceiving the people.

While addressing the inaugural ceremony of Uttar Banga Utsav, Mamata Banerjee said, “They (BJP) lectures others on nationalism, but in practice, they are the ones who are selling the nation. They are selling everything from PSUs, Insurance, Railways and Ports.”
 

“This is a budget to deceive the masses. It's an anti- farmer, anti-people and anti-country budget,” she added.
 

Mamata Banerjee said that the regular hike in petrol and diesel prices and imposition of cess on these products have greatly affected the poor people owing to the related price hike of essential commodities.
 

The Chief Minister scoffed at the fake budget. She said, “The money of the poor is not being forgiven, but the money of the capitalists is being forgiven. One or two people in the country are the treasures of capitalism. The centre is also giving false hopes to the tea workers. The centre did not pay a single penny for the return of the migrant workers to the state.”

Talking about the centre’s project for north-south road connectivity between Siliguri and Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee said, “The Bengal government is already implementing the work. The state is already in progress. What more is there for the central government to do?”

The Union Finance minister announced ₹ 25,000 crores for road construction in West Bengal in the budget, including upgradation of the existing Kolkata-Siliguri highway.