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| Rajasthan CM presents previous year’s budget in Assembly | | Embarrassment for Congress | |  Agencies
New Delhi, Feb 10: The Congress government in Rajasthan faced embarrassment on Friday as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot mistakenly read the excerpts of the previous year’s budget instead of Budget 2023-24.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot also holds the additional charge of Finance in the government.
The Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha was thrown into a frenzy on Friday when Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot mistakenly read excerpts from the previous budget instead of the Budget 2023-24. The opposition BJP immediately accused the government of leaking the budget and demanded that the presentation be postponed.
Gehlot accidentally read the old budget speech for seven minutes before being interrupted. He was later stopped by the chief whip.
The massive goof-up prompted uproar in the Legislative Assembly as BJP members charged the government with adopting a casual approach towards such a serious matter as the budget. BJP members protested and the assembly proceedings got disrupted.
Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly CP Joshi expunged the proceedings from 11 am to 11.42 am. He said whatever happened was unfortunate. Human errors happen and are rectified.
The Speaker directed opposition members to maintain the dignity of the house and the sanctity of the budget but the opposition members continued their protest.
Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Rajasthan were House after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot apologized for reading the old budget. “It happened mistakenly. I feel story for that”, he said.
“Opposition can point out only if there’s a difference between what’s written in the budget in my hand and its copies were given to the House members. If a page was added to my budget copy by mistake, how does the matter of leaking of budget arise?”, he asked.
Seizing the opportunity to attack Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, BJP leader, and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje termed it as “sheer callousness”.
“It happened first in the history of Rajasthan. When I was Chief Minister I used to read and check the budget two, or three times. How can a person miss to cross-check such an important document?”, she asked, adding “I am sorry that Rajasthan is unsafe in the hands of such rulers”
When the house reassembled after the second adjournment, the chief minister said, “I am feeling sorry. An extra page was added by mistake. It was human error.”
“For eight minutes Chief Minister continued to read last year’s budget”, she pointed out, adding, “No Chief Minister comes with papers like this. What will happen to the state if the Chief Minister does something like this”. |
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