The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala has accused the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of delivering a Budget that sought to paper over Kerala’s dire economic situation by regurgitating empty promises.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan termed Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal’s nearly two-hour Budget speech on February 5 (Monday) an election-eve screed that targeted the Opposition to conceal the government’s alarming fiscal failures.
He said Mr. Balagopal had relegated the Budget to the subaltern status of a worn-out political statement speckled with cliched, obsolete and hollow-sounding communist jargon.
