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On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), the 2nd time of the debate connected the Union Budget, Opposition members successful the Rajya Sabha raised the contented of rising prices and said the Union Government had failed to code it. In response, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members said that, dissimilar successful the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) tenure, ostentation was curbed by the Narendra Modi Government, and Parliament does not sermon it anymore.
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi N.V.N. Somu compared the terms of gold, petrol, diesel, cooking gas, and the rupee’s worth against the dollar successful 2014 and 2026. The prices of indispensable commodities had skyrocketed successful the past fewer years, and respective products were beyond the scope of the communal people, Ms. Somu said.
“This authorities failed to make request contempt the Economic Survey’s absorption connected home consumption,” she said, adding that the Centre had betrayed the radical by pushing anti-labour policies and ignoring the request from farmers for a ineligible minimum enactment price. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had turned a unsighted oculus towards Tamil Nadu, Ms. Somu said.
Shiv Sena MP Milind Murli Deora, showcasing the commercialized deals India had inked with the European Union, the U.S., and the U.K., said developed countries would not person signed a woody with India had it been a “dead economy”.
“Some radical overseas and, much importantly, close here, had the wilful ignorance to telephone our system dead,” Mr. Deora said, seemingly criticising a caller remark by Congress person Rahul Gandhi. “If India’s system is dead, however is India the fastest increasing large system successful the world? How is UPI processing implicit 70 crore transactions per day, making India the planetary person successful existent clip integer payment?” Mr. Deora said.
Surendra Singh Nagar of the BJP said the Centre had curbed inflation, and that was the crushed Parliament nary longer discussed terms rise. Under the UPA, determination was double-digit inflation, and the concern improved nether the Narendra Modi Government, Mr. Nagar said.
Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, pointing astatine assorted reports connected widening inequality successful the country, warned of societal upheaval if it was not addressed by the government. “We person ne'er witnessed specified skyrocketing inequality betwixt the rich, super-rich, precocious mediate class, mediate class, and the poor. If the concern is not brought nether control, I americium acrophobic the time is not excessively acold erstwhile the state would beryllium doused into societal upheaval, successful the mode immoderate of our neighbouring countries person precocious seen,” Mr. Roy said.
The authorities claimed the system was increasing and investments had arrived, but younker unemployment was expanding and existent wages were stagnant and “income inequality is astatine the highest since the assemblage period,” Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha said. “Unemployment continues to beryllium the biggest challenge. If it continues similar this, the demographic dividend would go a demographic liability,” Mr. Jha said.
