TN CM says budget 'good,' Oppn dubs it as mere poll promises

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami Friday welcomed the interim Union budget,saying it is "good" and would help improve the livelihood of the poor and common people, while the opposition dismissed it as a "poll manifesto."
DMK president M K Stalin slammed the Centre for presenting a "full fledged" budget rather than an interim one and dismissed it saying, "this is not a budget, but a poll manifesto aimed at luring the people."
"Deploying its usual accounting jugglery, the BJP government has pegged the fiscal deficit on a lower scale at 3.4 per cent (of GDP)...the fiscal deficit should have been "4.5 per cent."

MDMK general secretary Vaiko dismissed the budget announcements as "mere poll promises when the government's days are counted."
Among the budgetary points he referred to attack the Centre included "no full fund allocation for the 14 new AIIMS."