Mayawati: Union spending anti-poor, pro-capitalists

Lucknow, Feb 1 BSP supremo Mayawati has named the Union Budget exhibited in Parliament today as anti-poor and pro-capitalists.

In an statement issued here, she said like the past spending plans of the Narendra Modi government, this one was additionally "anti-poor and pro-capitalists".

"The end result for Modi's guarantee of 'achchey din' he had made before the Lok Sabha polls in 2014?" she asked.

Mayawati also blamed the prime minister for making "deceiving discourses and claims".

The BJP-drove NDA government has watched over poor people, the workers, the farmers and the working class because of which joblessness is rising and the gorge between the rich and the poor augmenting, she guaranteed.

Back Minister Arun Jaitley today exhibited his fifth spending plan.

It was the last full-fledged budget of the BJP-drove NDA government before the following Lok Sabha surveys, booked for 2019, and the decision organization together expectations that its accentuation on rustic segment will help it connect with masses.

Then, BJP cheif Amit Shah said the Budget gives new wings to desires of the poor as he refered to measures went for giving a lift to agriculturists, foundation, country division and little and medium undertakings.