Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party over announcing special packages in the Union Budget for states like Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, which are ruled by key allies of the ruling coalition. "This is a kursi bachao (saving seat) budget. They have presented the Budget for those parties which will save their seats.
This budget is to keep their NDA partners Nitish Kumar and in Andhra Pradesh," Banerjee said speaking to ANI after the presentation of the first Budget of the third term of Narendra Modi government. Slamming the BJP for allegedly not announcing any special allocation for West Bengal, the TMC leader said, "This Budget is not for India. They have not given anything to Bengal.
They can't tolerate Bengalis. The BJP will be wiped out of Bengal." Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made major announcements for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, including a boost in infrastructure and special financial support.
In her Budget speech in Parliament, Nirmala Sitharaman said, "On the Amritsar-Kolkata industrial corridor we will support the development of an industrial nod at Gaya in Bihar. We will also support the construction of road connectivity projects namely Patna-Purnia Expressway, Buxar-Bagalpur Expressway, Bodhgaya-Rajgir-Vaishali-Darbanga and an additional two-lane bridge over river Ganga at Buxar at a total cost of Rs 26,000 cr." "Power projects, including setting up of a new 2400 megawatt power plant at Pirpain.