I.N.D.I.A will protest against the budget today, consensus reached in the meeting held at Mallikarjun Kharge's house
Budget 2024: The budget was presented by the Finance Minister in the House on the second day of the monsoon session. All the opposition leaders have raised questions on this budget. The opposition alliance INDIA will protest inside and outside Parliament on Wednesday over the discrimination done with the opposition-ruled states in the Union Budget. Leaders of other opposition parties along with Congress may also join this protest.
The opposition alliance INDIAA has decided that it will protest both inside and outside Parliament on Wednesday over the discrimination done with opposition-ruled states in the Union Budget. This decision was taken at a meeting of the leaders of the constituent parties of INDIAA on Tuesday evening at Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge's residence.
The meeting was attended by Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi, Deputy Leader of Congress in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari, Deputy Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi, Chief of NCP Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut, Trinamool Congress leaders Derek-O-Brien and Kalyan Banerjee, DMK's TR Balu, JMM's Mahua Majhi, AAP's Raghav Chadha and Sanjay Singh, general secretaries of Congress KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh, CPI(M)'s John Brittas, and scores of other leaders.
Venugopal said after the meeting that this year's Union Budget has already ended the concept of budget. They have completely discriminated against most of the states. Therefore, it was the consensus in the INDIA meeting that we should oppose it.