Bengaluru voted for BJP, but Budget2024 gave little in return, says Mohandas Pai
Bengaluru, despite the city and surrounding constituencies electing five BJP MPs and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman representing Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha, Aarin Capital chairman TV Mohandas Pai said on Tuesday.
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He also mentioned Bengaluru voted for the BJP in the assembly polls last year and is among the highest contributors to the federal taxes yet got nothing in return in the budget.
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin would be very upset as there is no mention of the south except Andhra Pradesh. The budget has totally ignored the south, except Andhra Pradesh, sparking a potential political friction, which is totally avoidable, he told ET.
“As far as the South goes, Andhra Pradesh has got whatever Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu wanted and, in the east, Bihar has got many things,” the former Infosys director, while not complaining about it.
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South India would be agitated at being ignored and eventually losing political clout as well. The union government must balance the interests of north and south India. “We don’t want a division of the country as Hindi and
