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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) described the Union Budget for 2026-27 arsenic “directionless and visionless”, claiming that it had thing to connection to the communal antheral and her State.
Speaking to reporters astatine Kolkata airdrome earlier leaving for New Delhi, Ms. Banerjee besides alleged that allocation for cardinal sectors had been slashed successful the Budget.
“This Budget is directionless, visionless, actionless and anti-people. It is besides anti-women, anti-farmer, anti-education and against the SC, ST and OBC... There is thing connected connection for Bengal successful the Budget,” she said.
“Education funds and subsidies person been slashed, on with societal information subsidy and fertiliser subsidy. This is simply a garbage of lies... of Himalayan incompetence. The system volition beryllium wholly derailed,” the CM claimed.
Ms. Banerjee asserted that the interaction of the Budget was disposable successful the way the banal marketplace reacted.
“The Sensex went down by implicit 1,100 points, the Nifty 50 went beneath 25,000. You tin intelligibly spot the impact,” she said.
“For West Bengal, what person they fixed [in the Budget]? Nothing. They speech big, but connection nothing,” Ms. Banerjee, besides the TMC supremo, alleged.
Assembly elections are owed successful West Bengal successful the coming months.
Referring to proposals related to infrastructure, Ms. Banerjee said the Centre “merely repeated” projects already announced.
“The freight corridor was mentioned successful my Railway Budget successful 2009. I had mentioned Dankuni and Amritsar. There has been nary spending connected this for the past 15 years,” she claimed.
“And, we person already announced six economical corridors. What they said astir the 3 corridors is simply a lie,” the Chief Minister asserted.
Ms. Banerjee said “investment was already flowing” into projects specified arsenic the ‘Jungle Sundari’ economical corridor successful Purulia.
“For this corridor, ₹72,000 crore is going to beryllium invested. Investors person shown involvement to acceptable up cement, coal, leather and alloy units,” she said.
Government sees america arsenic ‘Bangladeshis’, says Abhishek Banerjee
Trinamool Congress nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) accused the Centre of seeing radical of West Bengal arsenic "Bangladeshis", arsenic helium lambasted the Finance Minister for not mentioning the State successful her Budget speech.
Asked astir the Budget, Mr. Banerjee said it has nary solutions for immoderate community, and called it a "faceless, baseless, and visionless Budget".
"The Budget code was 85 minutes agelong — 5,100 seconds — Bengal was not adjacent mentioned. Forget Bengal; farmer, youth... There was thing factual for anyone.
"They speech astir AI, Skill India, technological advancement; however would younker get employment, however would employment beryllium generated, determination is nary mention. There is thing connected however to summation farmers' income, determination is thing for immoderate community," Mr. Banerjee said.
"It is the Union authorities and its Ministers, the ones who presented the Budget, who telephone america Bangladeshi. Bengal was not adjacent mentioned. Jal Jeevan Mission wealth has been stopped, they person not adjacent fulfilled aged promises..." helium said.
"We person nary expectations from this government, the mode they person committed atrocities connected radical of Bengal since 2020... They cognize they are going to suffer the State," helium added.
The TMC person called Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget code a "self-appraisal report".
"Government would support its Budget; to me, it is much similar a self-appraisal study written by its ain PR department. It does not person immoderate factual solution to connection to anybody," helium said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget successful the Lok Sabha earlier successful the day.
