New Delhi: The BJP expressed confidence Thursday that a ‘pro-people’ Union Budget will be presented February 1, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held pre-budget consultation with party functionaries. She held four rounds of meetings with BJP leaders at the party headquarters here, taking feedback for the budget.
BJP working president JP Nadda, general secretaries BL Santhosh, Bhupender Yadav and Arun Singh were among those who attended the meeting.
“The finance minister met various sections of the party for consultation. We are confident that a pro-people budget will be presented,” Arun Singh said after the meeting.
The four party meetings attended by Sitharaman, included one each with BJP office-bearers, spokespersons, functionaries of various ‘morchas’ like those working with farmers, youth and women among others.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been running a government dedicated to people’s welfare. This is the agenda of the government and that of the party as well,” Arun Singh added.
The BJP has been holding a series of meetings with various stake holders, including business leaders, farmer bodies and trade unions, as part of its per-budget dialogue, party spokesperson Gopal Krishna Agarwal later informed.
“The idea behind these meetings is to seek suggestions for the budget from business leaders, farmer organisations, trade unions and professional bodies such as ICAI and others,” Agarwal, , who is a spokesperson for economic issues and coordinating these meeting, said.
“One meeting for each specific sector is being held, and the report of every meeting is being submitted to the party’s working president JP Nadda,” informed Agarwal.
Agarwal said this exercise is being organised under the leadership of Nadda and the party’s organisational general secretary Santhosh.
The first budget in the second term of the Narendra Modi government will be presented on February 1.
The Budget session would be held in two phases from January 31 to April 3. The first phase of the session will be from January 31 to February 11 and the second will be from March 2 to April 3.
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