Patna: After Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2023-24 in Parliament on Wednesday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that he was not aware of it. Instead, the Chief Minister, who is in Supaul district as part of his ‘Samadhan Yatra’, asked state Finance Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary whether the budget met his expectations for Bihar.
“I am not aware of it (budget). I did not hear the budget speech as I am doing Samadhan Yatra. I heard the budget speech last year, but since our visit was pre-scheduled, I could not listen.” In this budget speech. I will analyze it when I return to Patna,” said Kumar.
Chowdhary, who was standing at some distance from Nitish Kumar, then came forward and said, “We put forth our grievances before the Union Finance Minister during our meeting, but our demands were not met in the budget speech. The people of Bihar were out of the budget.” There were a lot of expectations, but the Center again betrayed the state.”