Nirmala Sitharaman to Opposition on Budget bias charge: ‘26 states not named in 2009…’

Replying to the budget discussion in the Lok Sabha, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted that no state was denied funds in the Union Budget 2024. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday rejected the opposition's allegations of opposition-ruled states being ignored in the Union Budget 2024 presented by her in Parliament on July 23. Replying to the budget discussion in the Lok Sabha, the minister asserted that no state was denied funds. She recalled that in the past Budgets by the UPA government also did not mention names of all states in their