Shiv Sena UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Sunday slammed the Union Budget 2026-27, saying the central government has completely failed to live up to expectations.
When she reviewed the budget, she noted that the strange thing was that all BSE stocks fell.
Priyanka Chaturvedi said, “The special thing about the budget is that all BSE stocks are in the red. The government has completely failed to live up to the budget expectations. I expected this budget to give direction to face the economic challenges in the country. It is no relief for the common man.”
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth Union Budget in the Lok Sabha on Sunday.
Failed to inspire public confidence, says Aaditya Thackeray
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2026-27 failed to instill public confidence on economic volatility while overlooking Maharashtra, a major contributor to the state exchequer.
In a social media post on X, the former Maharashtra minister criticized the BJP administration and suggested that it would be a real “gift” for the country if the government focused on challenges outside of election cycles.
“Maharashtra, the largest contributor to the Union Government’s exchequer, is not even an afterthought. Be it GDP, GST, Income Tax, Maharashtra is the largest contributor and proportionately the most ignored,” Aaditya Thackeray wrote in his post.
He noted that the budget should represent the interests of the entire country. Since the nation is a collection of states, he argued, the BJP had fundamentally changed these norms of governance over the previous decade.
Thackeray demanded more transparency regarding the proposed high-speed rail corridors connecting Mumbai and Pune with seven other urban centers, specifically questioning whether the central or state governments were responsible for funding these growth connectors.
The Sena (UBT) leader also condemned the Urban Economic Regions (CER) Development Plan, which includes a proposed grant of Rs. ₹5,000 crore per region over five years. The statement serves as a major joke after the closure of the “failed Smart City program” that lasted more than 10 years without providing clarity, he noted.
“The FM has conveniently ignored to instill any confidence in the citizens in the economic instability, geopolitics and falling rupee that caused her party to once cause national chaos,” he said.
Additionally, Thackeray highlighted the lack of substantial support for climate initiatives in a country highly susceptible to environmental change in both rural and metropolitan sectors. He characterized the administration as clueless and visionless when it came to environmental policy.
