Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati criticised the Budget presented by the Uttar Pradesh government, claiming that it lacks adequate government intention and policy to remove inflation, poverty, unemployment, backwardness and to meet the basic needs of the common man.
She asked how true development is possible in such a way?
Taking to social media platform X, former chief minister of UP said, “If the Budget of 2025-26 presented by the UP government in the assembly today (Thursday) was more of a broad public interest and public welfare, it would have been better, whereas there is a lack of adequate government intention-policy to remove inflation, poverty, unemployment, backwardness and to meet the basic needs of the common man. How is true development possible?'â€
“Overall, the UP BJP government’s Budget is also aimed at appeasing the well-fed middle class, while the real concern and constitutional responsibility of the governments should be to fulfill the objective of ‘sarvajana hitaya’ and ‘sarvajana sukhaya’, which should bring peace and happiness to millions of families by removing their poverty. It is a matter of concern that this is not happening,†she assed.
The BSP chief said, “Cities, villages, regions and society of Uttar Pradesh are struggling with the lack of basic facilities and many inequalities and when the people are demanding better arrangements for roads, water, schools, hospitals, livelihood, then showing them other dreams is not the right solution to the problem.â€
She further said, “The claim that UP was in a bad state before the BJP is not justified, because in my BSP government, there was an excellent rule of law at every level in the matter of public interest and public welfare and crime-control and law and order, which people are now yearning for, while the bahujan samaj is in a bad state due to the policies of the BJP.â€
Corporate-friendly, says CPI (ML)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) described the Yogi government’s Budget for 2025-26, as corporate-friendly and jobless.
CPI (ML) state secretary Sudhakar Yadav said that attention had not been paid in the UP Budget to employment generation necessary to reduce the huge problem of unemployment. “The Budget will benefit capitalists, not the common man. Displacement will be promoted. Farmers will be looted due to land acquisition. There is nothing in the Budget for ad hoc and contractual workers who have been struggling for a long time to be declared government employees with a hike in their honorarium. The Budget is als silent on waiver of micro finance loans. Allocations for education and health are inadequate,†he said.
