Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee in fiery speech claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is leading a “creaky, shaky and vulnerable” coalition government that looked after the interests of only two states in the budget, ignoring all other citizens in the country.
Participating in the discussion on Budget 2024-25, he said the budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is “anti-people” and aimed at “appeasing and compensating” coalition partners of the ruling NDA.
“The budget has no vision and agenda. There is no relief to the common people and the budget has neglected 140 crore people of the country,” he said in a hard-hitting speech amid repeated disruption by a few BJP members from West Bengal.
Banerjee claimed the 2024 general elections’ results are a rejection of “arrogance and divisive politics” of the BJP.
He said everything in the third term of the Modi government remained same with ministers retaining the same portfolios except that the number of “cheer leaders” of the ruling party has gone down, which is a big change.
It is a “creaky, shaky and vulnerable” coalition government that will explode soon, he claimed.
The TMC MP said he will expand the word ‘BUDGET’ as B for betrayal, U for unemployment, D for deprived, G for guarantees which were failed by the government, E for eccentric decisions and T for tragedies.
He said the NDA government has allegedly betrayed the citizens, farmers, housewives, daily wage earners and many others during its rule.
He accused the government of weaponising central agencies to carry out politically motivated witch hunts against opposition leaders “like many of us including me”.
“They did not stop at me or my wife, my elderly parents, my PA, my advocate, even my seven-year-old daughter and four year son were not spared. BJP tried to make an example out of me by setting an example for rest of the country to see by getting ED, CBI go after me. But what did the people do? The people of my constituency elected me third time with a margin of 7.10 lakh votes… If I have to bow, I’ll bow before the power of the people, I’ll not bow before the people in power,” he said.
Banerjee also in jibe at BJP used Bollywood Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s popular dialogue from his Blockbuster film Pathaan saying ,”Thoda sabr rakhiye aur kursi ka peti baandh lijiye, mausam bigadne wala hai (Keep some patience and tighten your seatbelts; the weather is about to turn stormy),” he said .
