Dubbing the Union budget as a "status-quoist" exercise, BJP today said the proposals made in it lacked vision and has failed to boost the confidence of the people.
Addressing a gathering of industry captains organised by FICCI in the capital, Swaraj said the proposals made by Finance Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget speech lacked vision, were partial in approach, had no "actual" solution to tackle corruption and had nothing concrete on infrastructure development.
"According to the budget speech, railways, NHAI and HUDCO will raised bonds worth Rs35 thousand crore. When infrastructure needs lots more money, government will depend on loans for the sector...we should be talking of at least 2 lakh crore for infrastructure," she said.
She alleged that Mukherjee made special allocations for West Bengal and Kerala with an eye on assembly elections.
"IIT Kharakpur and IIM Kolkata were given allocations because you come from West Bengal and the state is going for polls... partisan approach hurts balanced development... the railway minister comes from West Bengal so that state will get all the new trains," she said.
Swaraj claimed a similar allocation was made for Kerala as that state too was poll-bound.
The BJP leader said an example of government's lack of vision was the decision to provide fertiliser subsidy to people living below poverty line.
"A person in BPL category will not have a land to cultivate. What will he do with the fertiliser... will he eat it," Swaraj quipped.
On the issue of corruption, she said the only solution suggested by Mukherjee to deal with the menace was the formation of a group of ministers (GoM).
"I demand that there be a GoM to look into the decisions taken by all the GOMs formed so far," she said.
She said as a woman, she found nothing for the gender in the budget. "A woman feels empowered when the kitchen expenses are under control... there is nothing to help the women. The budget has disappointed us," she said.
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