INDIA bloc reacted to Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2025

INDIA bloc criticised Budget 2025, highlighting stagnant wages, low consumption, and a complicated GST system, claiming it fails to address key economic issues.

The Opposition's INDIA bloc, including the Congress and Trinamool Congress, Saturday criticised the Union Budget 2025, presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, claiming that it has nothing to address the “illnesses” of stagnant real wages, lack of buoyancy in mass consumption, sluggish rates of private investment and a complicated GST system that the economy is suffering from.

While Congress MPs Karti Chidambaram and Kumari Selja raised concerns about the Union Budget 2025, accusing the government of offering vague proposals without addressing key issues facing the country, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee claimed that the Budget has "nothing" for West Bengal.

Congress: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Union Budget as a “band-aid for bullet wounds”, saying that the Centre was “bankrupt of ideas”. He said solving the economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift.