Opposition parties today slammed the state's budget presented in the UP Assembly by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and termed it as "disappointing, anti-people and anti-youth" with nothing new in it.
"There is nothing in the budget for villages, poor, labourers, farmers, Dalits, backwards," Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly and BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya said.
"It has nothing for Dalits, backwards and minorities," he said, adding that basic education, health services and youths have been ignored.
Drought-ridden Bundelklhand region and the most backward eastern region have not been given their due. The BSP condemns it, Maurya said.
Reacting to the budget, leader of the BJP legislature party Suresh Khanna said it was "hopeless, anti-farmers and anti-people."
"There is no provision for job creation, crashing the hopes of youth, no concrete plan at controlling law and order and there are no adequate long and short financial provisions to resolve the problem of Bundelkhand," he said.
UPCC president Nirmal Khatri said that despite giving the biggest budget and declaring the year as farmers year, no concrete programme has been given to ameliorate their lot.
The provisions made for Bundelkhand and Purvanchal are inadequate, he added.
