Greetings to all,
Focusing the reality and copied views of NDA Budget 2014.
"Welcome to the real world... BJP sought a mandate for Congress Mukt Bharat. My friend Arun Jaitley would have realized that it is not possible to have even a Congress Mukt Budget," -former finance minister P Chidambaram
The theme that NDA had reworked UPA schemes formed the bedrock of criticism of the Modi government's first Budget with Chidambaram saying Jaitley acknowledged the basic validity of the interim Budget's numbers for 2014-15.
The theme that NDA had reworked UPA schemes formed the bedrock of criticism of the Modi government's first Budget with Chidambaram saying Jaitley acknowledged the basic validity of the interim Budget's numbers for 2014-15.
The "imprint of the UPA government's policies" on fiscal consolidation, GST, FDI cap in insurance and social sector schemes, Chidambaram said, could be found in Jaitley's speech.
Chidambaram complimented Jaitley "for shunning election rhetoric" about the economy as well as the "uninformed diatribe" against UPA policies by some of his colleagues in the run-up to Budget day.
Congress leader Manish Tewari criticized the Budget, saying, "There is no vision. There is no roadmap as to where exactly this government intends to take the country in economic and fiscal terms."
Another Congress leader, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, described the Budget as a name-changer rather than a game-changer and said it was nothing but a continuation of old schemes.
Despite raising expectations, the Budget has turned out to be a "missed opportunity" for BJP, they said as they begun by expressing apprehension that raising the tax exemption limit by Rs 50,000 was just "inadequate" when inflation was running high.
Chidambaram complimented Jaitley "for shunning election rhetoric" about the economy as well as the "uninformed diatribe" against UPA policies by some of his colleagues in the run-up to Budget day.
Congress leader Manish Tewari criticized the Budget, saying, "There is no vision. There is no roadmap as to where exactly this government intends to take the country in economic and fiscal terms."
Another Congress leader, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, described the Budget as a name-changer rather than a game-changer and said it was nothing but a continuation of old schemes.
Despite raising expectations, the Budget has turned out to be a "missed opportunity" for BJP, they said as they begun by expressing apprehension that raising the tax exemption limit by Rs 50,000 was just "inadequate" when inflation was running high.
Former commerce minister Anand Sharma termed the Budget "uninspiring and insipid" as it lacked a bold vision. "He (Jaitley) made a clear acknowledgement that given the precarious global economic situation, the UPA government left behind an economy which is healthy," said Sharma.
The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme is now the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana — a change of the programme’s nomenclature from English to Hindi, and of its mascot from the former Prime Minister to one of the Jana Sangh’s icons.
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the signature tune of the past decade, received one small para in Jaitley’s address.
Instead, Jaitley announced a scheme called the “Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission”, named after Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the BJP’s ideological parent Jana Sangh. The scheme is rooted in former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s idea of Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (Pura).
The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, launched by the UPA as its flagship programme to improve sanitation in villages, will now be called the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with a target to ensure a clean toilet in every Indian home by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140711/jsp/frontpage/story_18603752.jsp
http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/unionbudget2014/budget2014/name-dropping-nehru-gandhi-make-way-for-nda-s-icons-in-budget/sp-article10-1238956.aspx
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/budget-2014/politics-of-budget/Budget-2014-NDA-has-reworked-UPAs-schemes-Congress/articleshow/38155176.cms
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