Finance Minister and Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari presented the Vote on Account budget in the Rajasthan Assembly on Thursday. Many big announcements were made in the budget. Meanwhile, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot reacted to the budget, targeting the BJP government by writing a post on social media X.
He wrote, “With this vote on account, the BJP government of Rajasthan has deflated ‘Modi’s guarantee’.”
Gehlot wrote, “In the Vote on Account presented by the Finance Minister of Rajasthan, instead of the vision for the state, only allegations against the previous government are visible. The Finance Minister said that the debt of the Rajasthan government increased by Rs 2 lakh crore, but I would like to bring to his notice that during the time of the UPA government, the debt of the Government of India was Rs 55 lakh crore till 2014, which will increase by Rs 106 lakh crore to Rs 161 lakh crore by 2023. It is done.”
He added, “All the financial indicators of the Rajasthan Government have been better than the Government of India. The state GDP of Rajasthan was around Rs 9 lakh crore in 2018, which will increase to around Rs 15 lakh crore in 2023 and Rajasthan reached number 1 in North India and number 2 in the country in economic growth rate.”
Modi’s guarantee is completely hollow: Gehlot
Former CM Gehlot said that with the Vote on Account, the BJP government of Rajasthan deflated ‘Modi’s guarantee’.
Targeting Modi on petrol and diesel prices, he said that in the elections he had guaranteed to make the prices of petrol and diesel in Rajasthan at par with neighbouring states like Gujarat and UP. However, it was not even mentioned in the Vote on Account.
He said that this shows that Modi’s guarantees are completely hollow. He also asserted that PM Modi has stolen the word guarantee from the Congress campaign.