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I.N.D.I.A. CMs, barring Mamata Banerjee, to boycott Niti Aayog meet over 'extremely discriminatory' budget

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. 

Chief Ministers of I.N.D.I.A. bloc, barring West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee, are all set to boycott the Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog on Saturday, protesting against the Union Budget that the Opposition claimed was discriminatory to states ruled by them.

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I.N.D.I.A. leaders to protest against 'discriminatory' Budget in Parliament on July 24

The decision was taken at a meeting of floor leaders of I.N.D.I.A. bloc parties at the 10 Rajaji Marg residence of Congress president and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge this evening.

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Congress full of contradiction, calling Budget copy of its manifesto but also criticising: Himanta Biswa Sarma

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said contradiction and confusion were "trademarks" of the Congress as it called the Union Budget a copy of its election manifesto but also criticised it.

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MPs are invited for the NITI Aayog meeting, discussions and deliberations take place, but there's no outcome: AAP MP Sandeep Pathak

After the coalition government came to power, AP surpassed Bihar in anarchy: YSRCP

They are discriminating against Uttar Pradesh, a state that has voted them to power for a third time: Akhilesh Yadav

Today in Andhra Pradesh you have a scenario where equitable justice is denied and the democracy is limping: Jagan Mohan Reddy

Will Rahul Gandhi apologise after SC verdict on NEET? asks Ravi Shankar Prasad

Karnataka Congress slams Kumaraswamy saying that he 'failed to get money for the state' in the Union Budget 2024

YSR Congress holds protest in Delhi against alleged deteriorating law and order situation, violence in Andhra Pradesh

BJP MLAs protest outside the West Bengal Assembly over atrocities against women in the state.

This is the plight of the state (Andhra Pradesh) that within 45 days, more than 30 people have been murdered: Jagan Mohan Reddy

Jagan Mohan Reddy is protesting today to expose whatever has happened in Andhra Pradesh in the last month... he is attributing any and every accident to TDP: TDP MP Daggumalla Prasada Rao

Assam CM Biswa Sarma meets FM Sitharaman, lauds her for 'exceptional' Union Budget 2024

Congress MP Jebi Mather slams Centre over Union Budget 2024, calls it 'MoU between PM Modi and CMs of Andhra, Bihar'

Akhilesh Yadav joins YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy's protest rally against Andhra's TDP govt in New Delhi

Problems in J&K increased but commitment from government absent: Omar Abdullah on Union Budget 2024

"If you look specific to Jammu and Kashmir there is nothing considering the scale of the problems that we face. We have amongst the highest levels of unemployment in the country, development wise we have gone backwards. Investment is promised but we don't see it on the ground anywhere. Today, people are screaming for water and for electricity, so, the sum total of our problems in Jammu and Kashmir increased but commitment from the Government of India is absent."

Omar Abdullah

English proverb 'the tail is wagging the dog' is very evident when Budget is taken into consideration: Congress MP

"If there is no discrimination in the Budget, then I will have to recheck the meaning of the word discrimination in the dictionary. It's a Budget which is indicative of the coalition compulsions of the current NDA government and as I had said yesterday, there is the English proverb that 'the tail is wagging the dog', and it is very very evident when you take the Budget into consideration," claimed Congress MP Manish Tewari.

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Congress can only claim credit for creating problems we are now trying to solve: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

"Some members of Congress Party have suggested that the Congress introduced the idea of the employment schemes that were proposed in the Union Budget 2024-25 by the Hon’ble FM @nsitharaman Ji yesterday. They have latched onto the phrase “employment-linked incentive” and concluded that what the Congress proposed in its so-called Nyay Patra and what the NDA government will deliver are one and the same. The Congress’ proposal was a vaguely worded statement of employment linked incentives for corporates to avail tax credits against additional employment...", Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on 'X'.

"Their claim to this idea is like claiming credit for actual poverty alleviation by PM @narendramodi Ji, just because they coined a term “Garibi Hatao”. Congress can only claim credit for creating and perpetuating the problems we are now trying to solve, i.e. keeping our citizens poor and without access to basic employment and skills for over 65 years!", he further added.

All including Ajit Pawar, Congress, Eknath Shinde trying to woo Marathas: VBA founder Prakash Ambedkar

"Whether it is Ajit Pawar, Congress, Balasaheb Thorat, Eknath Shinde... all of them are trying to bring the Marathas on their side. They think that if they take up any role, the Marathas will ditch them. That's why they don't want to play any role," said Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) founder Prakash Ambedkar.

Opposition involved in paper leaks, they are playing with future of Bihar: State Deputy CM Vijay Sinha

Congress, I.N.D.I.A. bloc making adverse comments against people of Bihar, Andhra: BJP leader G V L Narsimha Rao

"This is actually the frustration of Congress and I.N.D.I.A. bloc that they are making such adverse comments against people of two states (Bihar and Andhra Pradesh). So, their comments are not necessarily targeted at just the government, but they are targeting the people of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh."

G V L Narsimha Rao

.Centre has only 'strengthened its own crutches' with the Budget: Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi

Money for calamity relief to NDA states, nothing for I.N.D.I.A. govt ruled states: Shashi Tharoor on Union Budget

While speaking about the Union Budget 2024, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, "The discrimination point was only one among many. In my case, I had 22 minutes worth of arguments. So, I am not going to confine it only to one thing. But on that particular issue, there is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that the sum total of the benefits given to the two states was obviously politically motivated".

"When Bihar gets Rs 26,000 crores for highways and Karnataka doesn't even get Rs 2,000 crores for Bengaluru's road and tunnel infrastructure, it is clearly a different approach here. You get money for calamity relief to various NDA states, you get nothing for I.N.D.I.A. government states and so on and so forth. This is a political budget but you can argue that most budgets are political, so why should we be surprised. But it's still worth pointing out", he added.

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"... There is absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that the sum total of the benefits given to the two states was obviously politically motivated. When Bihar gets Rs 26,000 crores for highways and Karnataka doesn't even get Rs 2,000 crores for Bengaluru's road and tunnel infrastructure, it is clearly a different approach here."

Shashi Tharoor

Revanth Reddy spreading false propaganda against Modi government: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy

Government tried to give new impetus to all-round development of country through budget: PM Modi

"Be it agriculture or rural development, investment or infrastructure – our government has tried to give a new impetus to the all-round development of the country through the budget."

PM Narendra Modi

Government fully committed to bright future of youth: PM Modi

"Our government is fully committed to the bright future of the youth across the country. A clear glimpse of this was seen in yesterday's budget. We will leave no stone unturned in providing opportunities to the youth so that they can participate as much as possible in the goal of developed India."

PM Narendra Modi

Why is Congress angry if youth are getting internships? asks Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

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