Launching a scathing tack on the Union Budget 2026-27, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo called it a "Humpty-Dumpty Budget" and accused the Centre of neglecting the common people.
She was addressing mediapersons at Kolkata airport on Sunday, preparing to leave for Delhi. She called the Budget a "juggle of words" that lacked real vision and direction. "It's a 'Humpty-Dumpty Budget', just jugglery of words. It is anti-women, anti-farmer, anti-education. The Centre wants to destroy the economic structure of the country," she said.
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'Economy derailed'
"The Union Budget of 2026–27 is full of sound and fury. It is directionless, visionless, missionless and actionless. The economy is derailed," she stated further.
She said that what the Central government said about three corridors was "absolutely garbage of lies". Referring to the proposals related to infrastructure, Banerjee said the Centre "merely repeated" projects which had already been announced.
Banerjee said, "The freight corridor from Dankuni that has been mentioned in this Budget was actually mentioned by me in the 2009 Railway Budget that I placed. There, I mentioned about Dankuni and Amritsar. There has been no spending on this for the last 15 years."
'No money given to Bengal'
Claiming that there is nothing for Bengal in the Budget, she said, "They have not given a single penny to Bengal. There is only one tax now. The Central government is taking away our money through GST. While they are collecting tax from Bengal, they are not releasing our developmental funds worth more than Rs 2 lakh crore."
Asserting that the Centre has no moral authority to run the government, the TMC supremo said, "They are destroying the country. They want to destroy the economic, social, infrastructural and constitutional structure of the country and the independent agencies."
Banerjee also asserted that the impact of the Budget was visible in the way the stock market reacted. "The Sensex went down by over 1,100 points, the Nifty 50 went below 25,000. You can clearly see the impact," she said.
