Union Budget 2024 | 'Politically biased, anti-poor,' says CM Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata, Jul 23 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday dubbed the Union Budget 2024-25 as "politically biased and anti-poor" and slammed the Centre for "depriving" the state.

The chief minister wondered what wrong West Bengal committed that it had been "deprived" by the Centre.

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"Bengal has been completely deprived in this Union budget. This doesn't look into the interest of the poor. The budget is politically biased. This is directionless and has no vision. It is only to serve a political mission," she told reporters on the state assembly premises.

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Earlier in the day, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union budget for the 2024-25 financial year.

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