Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sandeep Pathak
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Aam Aadmi Party’s National Organization General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Sandeep Pathak has targeted the central government regarding Budget 2024. At the same time, he also gave information on the issues raised in the India Alliance meeting held in Delhi on Tuesday. Sandeep Pathak said that this time the budget has been very disappointing. In this budget, the government has neither paid attention to employment nor has done anything for the youth and farmers. The central government has treated Delhi and Punjab step-motherly in this budget.
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In the India Alliance meeting, the issue of the Niti Aayog meeting and the health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also came up. The central government invites people to the Niti Aayog meeting, but nothing comes out of that meeting. Big things are said in the meeting but none of them are implemented. The vision of the central government is clearly visible from this year’s budget. The central government is working with a small mindset.
‘The government needs to wake up’
Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak further said that today the government needs to be awakened. You are the Prime Minister of a great country, if you make the budget with such a narrow ideology after being the Prime Minister of such a great country, then how will the country move forward? In the India Alliance meeting, concern was also expressed about the health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The health of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in jail, is continuously deteriorating.
His sugar level is decreasing again and again. His sugar level is falling below 50. This way of sugar level falling at night is a big danger to the life of any person. On this, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena writes a letter saying that you 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. 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.
Corporate profits have increased, but employment has not increased.
On the budget, Sandeep Pathak said that this budget of the government 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. Forget about the guarantee of MSP to farmers, you have reduced the fertilizer subsidy by 36 percent.
The BJP government hates the farmers of the country. You are thinking about the corporates but you have not thought about the farmers and the youth even once. You are not interested in the education and health sector. The Delhi government spends 25 percent of its budget on education, while the central government gives less than two percent of its budget to the education sector. You want to keep the youth of the country illiterate. The Delhi government gives 15 percent of its budget to the health sector, while the central government gives less than one percent of its budget to health.
States of political friends of the central government were given a higher place in the budget.
He further said that Ayushman Bharat has also become a jumla (gimmick) like other schemes. You keep a budget of 7000 crores for Ayushman Bharat, whereas the health budget of Delhi government alone is 9000 crores. What kind of a joke is the central government playing with the people of the country. They are not concerned with education, health, employment and farmers, they just want to save their chair. States which are political friends of the central government have been given top position in the budget.
‘Delhi and Punjab were discriminated against’
Why did you think about those states only after the alliance was formed? Why did you not do anything about those states before that? You have discriminated against Delhi and Punjab because your allies do not have a government here. 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 its chair. The Prime Minister has made this budget to save his government, this budget has nothing to do with the people of the country.