-Increase Healthcare expenditure to save lives.
-Increase Defence expenditure to safeguard borders.
Through his tweet, Rahul put forward his three key demands, covering areas that he had previously focussed on - Medium and small-scale industries, farmers and workers; health care and defence.
The Congress leader shared his wish list nearly half-an-hour before
Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year,
In August last year, Rahul had painted a bleak picture of the job-creation scenario in the country and warned of mass unemployment by early 2021. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is currently presenting the
Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament amid huge public expectations at a time when India is recovering from the COVID-19 crisis.
Congress terms Budget as anti-farmer
Mon, Feb 01 2021 01:51:48 PM
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS): The Congress on Monday criticised the Centre for failing to address the farm issues and termed the Union Budget as Kisan Vidrohi .
In a tweet on Monday soon after the Budget presentation, Congress leader Jaiveer Shergill said, BJP Govt reading laundry list of hollow reforms in agri sector is case of failed student reading his/her forged report card; Budget failed to increase MSP, no increase in meagre allocation under KisanSammanYojna, no loan waiver-Farmer continues to get stabbed by Kisan Virodhi BJP. One Nation-One Ration Card remains a catchy slogan with sketchy future as Budget fails to provide Ration to migrant labourers impacted by pandemic-There should have been announcement for direct cash transfer with employment support package-as usual BJP Govt left labour stranded.