Uttar Pradesh’s assembly budget session turned contentious with Samajwadi Party’s Shivpal Singh Yadav unleashing a viral X tirade. ‘Kagazi budget mubarak—dreams’ elixir served again,’ he jabbed, contrasting hype with harsh truths: ad-driven ‘growth’ versus cratered roads and sidelined unemployed.
‘Degrees gather dust, data smiles in files,’ Yadav lamented. Numerical wizardry masks empty plates for the poor, lush jumla fields yield no jobs. Inflation climbs, yet ‘all good, farmers happy,’ claims the state. Not a fiscal plan, but an ‘event’—public reckoning awaits.
Congress’s Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’ dissected the Rs 9.12 lakh crore behemoth: new schemes starved at Rs 43,000 crore, under 5%. Farmers abandoned amid shortages, costs, and stalled growth; income-doubling pledge fizzles.
Zero provisions for outsourced wages, instructor arrears defying court mandates. Eastern and Bundelkhand belts ignored sans special packages. Deficit alarms signal citizen squeezes ahead. ‘Youth and teachers duped,’ she fumed.
Opposition chorus labels it the government’s exit anthem. With 2027 on horizon, Lucknow buzzes: can rhetoric sustain, or will reality prevail?