#Government's #InterimJoke
When you see a cabinet that has only a life span till mid-May presenting a full budget, it seems like a patient on his deathbed is drawing plans for a new house. Despite knowing the truth that this budget will not be applicable to the new government after the elections, Finance Minister Balagopal has spread “long-term development dreams” in abundance.
When the treasury is empty and the threat of treasury closure persists, announcing bridges, roads and a golden future is not economics, but political magic. K Rail is gone, and the Rapid Regional Transit System is coming in its place. At least a simple, catchy name could have been given to this permanent railway project.
The claim is that this is a development budget. But it is really a magic show to mesmerize some stupid voters. After the elections, the curtain will fall, the magician will go, and all that is left is a trash can. If the new government is of the opposite party, it will be thrown into the ditch, including the trash can.
This full budget of the Left government is not a document that faces facts, but a speechbook that runs away from reality. Announcing dreams worth crores from a treasury without money is like building a sand castle from the sea. If a new government comes, all this will have to be written again.
The current budget will become a historical object under the name of “the interim joke of the interim government”. Therefore, this budget is not a road map for development, but a cartoon map of politics. The only consolation is that this budget has not been filled with gibberish like that of its predecessor, the economist.
Writing development dreams where there is no money is not a budget; it is a story that deceives the people.
-K. A. Solaman
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