Rajya Sabha echoed with Congress outrage over the Union Budget, as Rajasthan MP Neeraj Dangi branded it a ‘numbers circus’ offering no succor to everyday Indians. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s ninth budget, he claimed, is her blandest, brimming with data dazzle but zero real-world impact.
Eleven years of broken pledges continue, latest budget recycling announcements without delivery timelines. Markets tanked dramatically: Sensex crashed 2,300 points, trillions lost. It betrayed investors, shook market faith, and ignored public aspirations.
The Modi era fixates on 2047 dreams, evading 2014-2026 flops with no near-term strategy—just rhetorical flourishes laced with politics. Nation grapples with job scarcity, inflation, disparity; budget’s startup-skill spiel dodges accountability for secure employment.
MSME, industrial, creative sector job pledges falter against unmet 2 crore annual targets. Bureaucratic hires halt, casual labor booms, corporate roles unstable. Capex hailed as savior, but employment outcomes lag spending massively.
2.8 crore skilled youth idle; MGNREGA tweaks fuel farmer-labor unrest, budget blind to it. Rechristening sans Gandhi, failing Ram integration exposes governance voids, Dangi concluded.