West Bengal CM dubs Union budget 2024 politically biased, anti-poor

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 23 dubbed the Union Budget 2024-25 as "politically biased and anti-poor" and slammed the Centre for "depriving" the state.The chief minister wondered what wrong West Bengal committed that it had been "deprived" by the Centre.

"Bengal has been completely deprived in this Union budget. This doesn't



look into the interest of the poor. The budget is politically biased. This is directionless and has no vision. It is only to serve a political mission," she told reporters on the state assembly premises.

Other Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders also said that the Budget has nothing for West Bengal and called it a budget for the ruling NDA and not for India.