The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh has termed the Union Budget as directionless. He claimed that the Budget has nothing for the people of Uttarakhand. The Congress leader said that the Budget has no relations with the public aspirations and the Finance Minister has presented an airy fairy Budget. The PCC president said that the Finance Minister failed to assure the people of India in her lengthy speech that how she would bring back the derailed economy on track.

He said that the Budget fails to provide any roadmap for controlling rising prices and removing unemployment. The PCC president termed the decision to disinvest Government share in Life Corporation of India (LIC) as unfortunate and destructive.

Former PCC president, Kishore Upadhyaya has also expressed disappointment over the Union Budget.

He said that the Government has totally neglected the rights of forest dwellers in the Budget. Upadhyaya added that the Budget has no plan to promote carbon neutral areas and makes no mention of green bonus. In a statement, the Congress leader said that the Union Budget 2020 is directionless and aimed at creating confusion in general public.

The vice president of the State Congress, Surya Kant Dhasmana, has said that the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat should tell the people of Uttarakhand about what the State received in the Union Budget.

He said that the BJP Government has given nothing to Uttarakhand the people of which has given sweeping victories to the BJP in two general elections and one Assembly election.