Nirmala Sitharaman to Counter Oppn's 'Two-States Budget' Charge in Parliament| English News | News18

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will strongly counter the Opposition’s charges of presenting a ‘two-states budget’ when she replies to the debate on the budget next week in both houses of Parliament, sources told News18. Ahead of key state elections in a few months, the BJP is keen to bust the Opposition’s narrative.

The minister, in her detailed reply, could list out how the Narendra Modi government has catered to all states, both in the vote-for-account this February and in the Union Budget, aside other projects. Some key NDA allies have in fact reached out to the FM to do so in her reply.

“I have told the finance minister that she should come out with all the facts in her reply so that automatically all this speculation and wrong publicity being done by opposition parties and Congress stops,” NDA ally Praful Patel told News18. He cited how the prime minister was in Mumbai recently and said poll-bound Maharashtra had received a bounty from the Centre, including the Rs 76,000 crore-worth port in Wadhvan in western coast which is fully funded by the Union government.