The Uttar Pradesh budget rollout has opposition leaders up in arms, none more vocally than Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav. The Rajya Sabha member unleashed on CM Yogi Aditynath, probing the intellectual backbone of the state’s finances.
‘Good budgets from such economist-chiefs? Dream on,’ he jabbed, predicting scant relief for everyday people amid policy missteps.
Yadav’s core allegation: a government that has evicted the poor now floats a budget irrelevant to them. ‘Homeless poor everywhere—this for whose sake?’ he challenged.
SP’s Sangram Singh critiqued the lack of focus on farmers, students, youth, and BJP’s healthcare revolution, absent in budget forecasts.
National GS Shivpal Singh Yadav called it deceptive: ‘Paper budget in paperless setup—no roadmap, mere hoax.’ He mobilized the fed-up masses for an electoral PDA takeover.
Congress’s Aradhana Mishra Mona noted: ‘Budget figures galore, but no heart to utilize them.’
These rebukes frame the UP budget as symptomatic of deeper governance woes, energizing rivals.