West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday described the Union Budget for 2017-18 as “misleading”.
“Misleading. Full of jugglery of numbers and hollow words which mean nothing,” Ms. Banerjee said.
She questioned the figures related to demonetisation and demanded that restrictions on withdrawals be removed. “Taxpayers still have restrictions on withdrawals. Remove all restrictions immediately. And where are the figures for demonetisation?” she asked. “No roadmap for the country or the future from a government that has lost all its credibility. A controversial Budget 2017 which is clueless, useless, baseless, mission less and action less. Heartless,” she said.
West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra said the Budget was a “wasted opportunity.”
