LoP RaGa's speech on Budget 2024

Most of my points are based on this video.

I found it amusing and confusing and weird that at the beginning of the speech, RaGa made an MP get his water and glass. I am sure they are friends. But felt weird. 

He started right from where he left off last time. Shiv Ji. "Dar mat, Darao mat", ahinsa, etc.

He accused that in a lot of things, the government is creating these "Padmavyuh" and trapping people. Just like how 6 people (Drona, Aswatthaama, Sakuni, Duryodhana, and Karna) were the orchestrators of the "Padmavyuh" in Mahabharatha, six people orchestrated these Padmavyuhas on the people of India. 

Just a slight aside, the speaker is so one-sided. Eventhough the ruling party is making noise first, he chastised the opposition ministers. He said, "if you do this running commentary, then they (the ruling party MPs) will also do the same. The same person didn't say a thing when the prime minister was calling the LoP "balak buddhi". This is an open secret that since the speaker is a member of the ruling party, he'd obviously be impartial. Then, a ruling party MP cried foul saying that LoP has talked back against everybody, the speaker, the prime minister, and the "constitution". This is such a laughable comeback but well, what can you expect from the party who has been a bully and suddenly is being ridiculed by the very person they bullied for 10 years. Btw, the PM was not present in the speech. RaGa alluded to the ruling party that "don't worry, he won't be here whenever I speak". We will see if that holds. 

I also want to make a small note about the FM. Her smug laugh in the face of tax burden on the middle class is so agitating to watch. FM has perfected the ducking of the questions on the budget and side-lining the main issue. An example was this video, where the reporter asked the FM two questions: (1) Is the 15000 crores allocated to Amaravati (the capital of Andhra) a loan or is it covered by the government? (2) Are you gonna take incharge of Polavaram? Obviously centre doesn't want anything to do with either of them but they are stuck with CBN. The second questions is the lesser devil so she expertly answered that first. FM said, rather vaguely, whatever was agreed before the centre will take care. Wow, such a committed answer. Then, while answering the first question she resorted to non-denial denial type answer. The less I talk about it, the better. Watch the video and find out for yourself. 

Then, RaGa talked how the government is isolating the middle class, the farmers, the dalits, the aadivaasis, the backward classes. He alluded that it is in a way good for INDIA bloc as all of them will now turn to them. He accused that they constitute 90% of the Indian populace but the remaining 10% is allocating the budget among themselves while the rest 90% is starving.The main talking points of his speech are as follows: 

• They will allocate MSP for the farmers properly. 
• They will do the caste and economic census, which he said the government is afraid to do. 
• They will reinstate the MNREGA scheme, which provides employment to the rural communities. 
• They will reinstate indexation on the property sales.  

He ended by saying that INDIA bloc will pass all these laws in this parliament and ended with a Jai Hind.