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Interim Budget the 'election manifesto' of BJP, says AIADMK
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Feb, 2019
Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, which is being wooed by the BJP ahead of the
Lok Sabha polls, on Monday criticized the Narendra Modi government on
various fronts including demonetization, GST, unemployment and farm
distress.
Participating in a discussion on Budget 2019-2020 in
the Lok Sabha, the party's M. Thambidurai said that the interim budget,
presented by the Modi government, was more of an "election manifesto" of
the ruling party.
"The economy is slowly limping back to
normalcy even as other vital parameters of our economy deserve some
immediate consideration. They (the government) have already submitted
five Budgets. The period is over. They cannot announce popular
programmes in the Interim Budget.
"If they had been so serious,
they could have announced them in the last Budget itself. Now,
announcement of these programmes is only meant for elections. It shows
it is their election manifesto and not the Budget," he said.
Slamming
the government over employment, he said the present rate of
unemployment at 6.1 per cent is the highest in the last 45 years.
"They
(the Modi government) have completed five years but the rate of
unemployment is still very high. Whatever steps the government has taken
up, they have failed to solve the problem. In the Interim Budget also,
they have missed the opportunity and could not come up with a permanent
solution to the problem," he said.
Terming the income support to
farmers announced in the Budget as "meagre", he said the government has
not given proper attention to this problem.
"They said that they
would double the income of farmers by 2022. They have taken up certain
measures. But, at the same time, they could not succeed in fulfilling
certain promises," he said.
Farmers are facing many problems and
the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana through specified farmers
would get Rs 6,000 yearly was not enough, he said, suggesting that this
be doubled to at least Rs 12,000 per annum.
The AIADMK leader hit
out at government for decisions like demonetization and hasty
implementation of the GST, saying says the two decisions have crippled
the economy.
"This year's Budget is all the more significant
since it is the chance to redeem the NDA government's image and undo the
damage caused to the economy going through abrupt disruption by virtue
of demonetization and faulty implementation of the GST, and restore the
growth trajectory.
"Both these decisions adversely impacted the
unorganized sectors of the economy and hampered the growth trajectory,
thereby disturbing the livelihood of several small and medium scale
enterprises," he said.
Thambidurai also requested that the Centre
release funds for various schemes and arrears of GST to the state,
complaining that this hasn't been done despite the AIADMK government
regularly sending letters on the matter.
"Former Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa was alive then. She came with a memorandum and met the
Prime Minister. I was along at that time. Since that time, we have been
asking them to release the money, but money is not being released," he
said, adding that the pending dues amount to Rs 10,000 crore.
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