Union Budget 2022 | Devendra Fadnavis hails MSP allocation; farmer leaders call it ‘disappointing’
The Hindu
The announcement is viewed as a consequence of the months-long farmers’ agitation demanding a guaranteed MSP for farm produce
While former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis praised the Union Budget as ‘inclusive’ and one that aimed to make India ‘self-reliant’, farmer leaders in the State trashed it as being “extremely disappointing” for farmers.
Speaking to reporters in poll-bound Goa, Mr. Fadanavis – who is the BJP’s Goa election in-charge - said the Budget, presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, aimed to make India atmanirbhar (self-reliant) and balashali (strong) and was designed to take the country towards progress.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.