Opposition Leaders Critique West Bengal's 'Unfulfilled' Budget Promises

Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the opposition in West Bengal, criticizes the state budget for 2025-26, describing it as full of empty promises. He highlights its failure to address issues concerning women, unemployed youth, and indigenous communities, while also calling the budget a cruel joke on state employees due to insufficient DA hikes.

In a scathing critique, opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari denounced the West Bengal state budget for 2025-26 as a compilation of unfulfilled promises, lacking substantial reforms for women, unemployed youth, and indigenous communities.

Adhikari specifically pointed out the meager 4% dearness allowance hike for government employees, comparatively less than those in other states, calling it a 'cruel joke.' Despite the government's significant projected expenditure on social welfare, he claimed that the budget failed to effectively address women's economic upliftment.

Emphasizing the absence of crucial development directives for North Bengal, Adhikari tore into the government’s inaction on river erosion and infrastructure projects. Echoing concerns of economist Ashok Lahiri, he lamented the budget's failure to tackle the state's mounting debt and criticized it for empty boasting.