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Dec 19, 2025

"Outrageous allegation," says Nirmala Sitharaman as opposition protest budget and marks it 'discriminatory'

New Delhi [India], July 24 Finance Minister Sitharaman on Wednesday attacked the opposition's claim  that the spending plan was 'oppressive' and said that it was an 'ridiculous claim' and an intentional endeavor by the resistance groups drove by the Congress to give individuals some unacceptable impression that 
their states were not designated assets or plans.

Finance Minister responded after Head of Resistance Mallikarjun Kharge made claims that the spending plan was prejudicial towards the conditions of the country.

Talking in the Rajya Sabha, the Finance Minister said, "Tragically the resistance, especially a senior chief, Mallikarjun Kharge, rose up to express out loud whatever he knew about the spending plan yesterday. Now that the head of the resistance raised issues on the spending plan, which was introduced and postponed in the house yesterday."

"Just to the point he raised, I have not named many states and just talked about two states. There are a couple of focuses I might want to make here with regards to what occurs in a discourse. The Congress party has been in power for quite a while in this nation and they have introduced so many spending plans that they would know obviously that in each spending plan, you don't get a chance to name each condition of this country," she said.

"I'll take this model: between the decision on account which was introduced on February 1 this year and the full financial plan that was introduced yesterday during the current year, I have not named a lot of states. The Bureau, under the administration of State leader Narendra Modi, chose to set up a port at Vadhvan, however Maharashtra's name was excluded from the spending plan yesterday. Does this imply that Maharashtra feels overlooked?" she said.

 Finance Minister said that 76 thousand crores have been reported for Mahrashtra for that undertaking.

"Maharashtra's name was not taken on vote-on-account. The state's name was not referenced even yesterday; does that mean the state got disregarded?" she expressed.

Adding further, she said, "And I can take the name of such countless various states that have such countless significant tasks. In the event that the discourse doesn't specify the name of a specific state, does that mean the plans and projects of the public authority of India, the remotely supported help that we get from the World Bank, ADB, AIB, etc, don't go to these states?"

"They go according to schedule, and, in the use articulation of the public authority, the division wise portion of the public authority makes reference to this," she expressed.

"I'm saying with liability that this is a 'intentional endeavor' of the resistance groups drove by the Congress to give individuals some unacceptable impression that their states were not dispensed assets or plans," said Sitharaman.

Testing the Congress, the Money Clergyman said, "I would challenge the Congress party that for all the financial plan discourses they have conveyed. Have they named each condition of the country in every one of their financial plan addresses? This is an over the top claim," she expressed.

This comes after Mallikarjun Kharge denounced the financial plan introduced yesterday and guaranteed that no different states other than Andhra Pradesh and Bihar got anything.

"Sabke thali khali aur sirf do ke thali mai pakoda aur jalebi. Ye do states ko chodkar, kisi ko kuch nai mila. Neither Tamil Nadu Kerala nor Karnataka got anything. Neither Maharashtra nor Punjab or Rajasthan and neither Chhattisgarh," he said.

"Indeed, even Delhi got nothing nor did Odisha. I have not seen this sort of financial plan as of not long ago. This financial plan has been introduced exclusively to keep certain individuals cheerful and it has all been done save their seats, 'Kursi bachane ke liye' kiya gaya. We denounce this financial plan and dissent against it. The entire of INDIA coalition denounces this," said Kharge.

In the mean time, the resistance INDIA coalition MPs held a dissent in the Parliament complex on Wednesday, against the Association Financial plan, introduced on Tuesday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

"Opposition virodhi kursi bachao Spending plan murda baad" trademarks were raised by the INDIA coalition pioneers as they fought holding bulletins in the Parliament building, guaranteeing that the Spending plan is "discriminatory" in nature.

Head of Resistance Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party General Secretary KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav, TMC MP Dola Sen were seen participating in the protest.