Nueva Delhi: Atishi, leader of the opposition at the Delhi Assembly, criticized the BJP government budget for the capital, qualifying it as “Hawa Hawaii.” The AAP leader claimed that the BJP ruler cut the assignment to key sectors such as education and health to “weaken” public services.
He also lashed out at the rival rival for not presenting the economic survey before the budget, which according to her would have broken the “hollow budget.”
“If the government really had a Lakh crore in income, they would not have hesitated to present the economic survey in the assembly. They hid it because the numbers would expose the truth behind this hollow budget.”
Atishi said that the education budget fell below 20 percent for the first time in 10 years, adding that the measure was to historical government schools.
“For the first time in 10 years, the educational budget has fallen below 20 percent, showing its agenda to destroy government schools. Health spending has also been reduced to 13 percent, the lowest in a decade, to dismantle free treatment services for the poor,” he said.
Atishi also criticized the reduction of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), noting that the assignment of RS 8423 million rupees since 2024-25 has been reduced to RS 6897 million rupees, it called an attempt to “paralyze the city cleaning system.”
“Rekha Gupta Ji spent 1.5 hours of his two -hour speech just by attacking AAP. The elections have finished: it is time to work to Delhi, not abuse us,” and added: “This budget makes clear: less work, more slogan. Five years of fair insults, that is the true BJP agenda,” Atishi was cited by the PTI news agency.
Calling the budget as “Jumla”, Atishi challenged the BJP to publish the economic survey and present the real figures on income and tax collections to prove the credibility of the budget.
“This is not a budget: it is a smoke curtain hide (PM Narendra) the false guarantees of Modi Ji,” said the leader of the AAP.
Delhi’s Prime Minister Rekha Gupta, presented on Tuesday the RS 1 Lakh Crore budget for fiscal year 2016 with ten focus areas, including the cleaning of Yamuna, the economic empowerment of women, infrastructure, water and connectivity, stating that it is a roadmap to make the capital of the national capital self -sufficient.
Previously, Atishi had presented the budget for financial year 2024-25 with a disbursement of RS 76,000 million rupees.
