Amit Malviya, the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party's IT Cell, responded to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s criticisms of the Union budget by questioning why the Congress hasn’t implemented their so-called “revolutionary” schemes in Karnataka.
Malviya challenged Ramesh’s comments on X, stating, “Is it? Then why hasn’t the Congress implemented their revolutionary idea in Karnataka? After all, you still have a Government there.”
He further explained that the Maharashtra government had initially piloted the internship scheme before it was adopted at the national level. “The BJP-led NDA first tested this scheme in Maharashtra and has now rolled it out nationally,” he noted.
Malviya also accused the Congress of being “all talk, no work.” “The problem with the credit-seeking Congress: all talk, no work,” he remarked.
Earlier in the day, the budget was presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. It provided for an internship to one crore youths in the country's 500 top firms for a period of five years, whereby each of these will receive a monthly allowance of Rs 5,000.
The Congress leader accused the BJP of taking out ideas from the party manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where it was mentioned that any diploma holder or graduate below the age of 25 years will get a Rs 1 lakh apprenticeship stipend for one year.
Along with Jairam Ramesh, many opposition leaders labelled it nothing but a “Sarkar Bachao” budget driven by the political compulsions for the survival of this “lame duck” government.
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