New Delhi: The AAP government today presented a Rs 60,000 crore budget for 2019-20 in the Assembly and said it is ‘two times more’ than the one presented in 2014-15.
Presenting the budget, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the budget has been dedicated to soldiers martyred in the Pulwama attack.
The Delhi Assembly session began with a standing ovation to the the Indian Air Force for carrying out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps inside Pakistani territory
“The budget estimates for 2019-20 are pegged at Rs 60,000 crore which is two times more than the budget presented in 2014-15,” Sisodia said.
A 53,000 crore was presented last year. BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the Assembly for chanting pro-Modi slogans instead of hailing the Indian Air Force for carrying out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan, Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said.
The Indian Air Force bombed terror camps at multiple locations across the Line of Control on the Pakistani side, 12 days after the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group carried out the dastardly Pulwama attack in Kashmir, government sources said.
The Speaker was accused by the Opposition parties of not giving time to laud the strikes to which Goel said the BJP MLAs chanted ‘Modi Zindabad’ instead of hailing the Indian Air Force. The BJP MLAs were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly amid chants of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Matram’.