Rahul Gandhi spreads faux information about “no increase in defence budget”, right here’s the reality

The Union Budget for the monetary 12 months 2021-22 was introduced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday. No sooner did the historic handle of the Finance Minister conclude, that illiterate ignoramuses from the opposition ranks started remarking how the Budget was a catastrophe from the phrase go. Being the captain of idiocy, the Congress get together went a step additional and organised a whole press convention devoted to informing braindead Indian residents about how they have been being fooled by the Modi authorities and the way their hard-earned cash was about to be gifted away to a couple crony capitalists.That is normally the drill after each Union Budget for the Congress get together. This 12 months, nevertheless, former and future Congress President Rahul Gandhi and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram took to mendacity by means of their enamel on the problem of this 12 months’s defence funds. While Rahul Gandhi in a tweet contemplated as to why there was no improve within the defence funds for the troopers, despite the fact that “Mr. Modi did PR photo-op with them on Diwali”, P Chidambaram took to calling the defence funds “flat”.चीन ने भारत भूमि पर क़ब्ज़ा कर लिया और हमारे सैनिकों को शहीद कर दिया।PM फोटो-ऑप के लिए उनके साथ दिवाली मनाते हैं।उन्होंने जवानों के लिए रक्षा बजट क्यों नहीं बढ़ाया?— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 1, 2021Chidamabaram stated, “she did not mention Defence at all, as if the Chinese had vacated occupied Indian territory. She did not mention that defence expenditure in 2021-22 will see no rise. It is flat at ₹3,47,088 crore, almost the same as the ₹3,43,822 crore in the current year”.That, as we better-learned residents know, is a blatant lie. Perhaps anticipating a former finance minister like Chidambaram to note a 19 per cent hike within the defence capital outlay on this 12 months’s funds was an excessive amount of to ask for.  That’s proper! This 12 months’s defence capital outlay has seen a rise of near 19 per cent, amounting to Rs 1,35,060 crore, as in comparison with final 12 months’s allocation of Rs 1,13,734 crore. The Indian Armed Forces will purchase new weapons, plane, warships and different navy {hardware} out of this capital outlay. The the rest of the defence funds won’t be used for modernisation or weapon and {hardware} acquisition. If that also doesn’t fulfill the Congress get together, regardless of the pandemic battering the tempo of India’s galloping financial system, for his or her data, the defence funds on an entire has been spiked by 1.4 per cent.The Congress, expectedly, can’t comprehend such primary information since they’ve the scoring of brownie factors at the back of their thoughts. To obtain the identical, Congress and its senior-most leaders are prepared to hawk lies. The Grand Old Party has ceased to shock a single soul with its antics.