Budget 2025: No mention of Maharashtra in Union budget is 'outright insult', says Aaditya Thackeray

The Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that there was no mention of Maharashtra which contributes the highest tax revenue in the budget speech which was an insult to the state reported the PTIIn a post on X Aaditya Thackeray also expressed disappointment about the budget being silent on the demand of a new airport for Pune and claimed that the BJP government has always neglected Maharashtra since 2014Budget 2025bull The bjp that spoke of abolition of income tax around the years 201214 before election atleast is now getting more liberal and negotiating with tax payers on slabs and rebates with a lot of conditions and hidden clauses This is the power of the citizenshellipmdash Aaditya Thackeray AUThackeray February 1 2025While the Bharatiya Janata Party speaks of infrastructure growth it is actually creating a contractorbased economy where favourite contractors get contracts and construct horrible roads like MumbaiGoa MumbaiNashik and Mumbai Ahmedabad highways Aaditya Thackeray saidThe BJP spoke of abolition of income tax between 2012 to 2014 and now its government is becoming more liberal and negotiating with tax payers on slabs and rebates but with a lot of conditions and hidden clauses he wrote on XThis was due to the power of citizens that brought the saffron partys Lok Sabha tally down to 240 after it had taken the country for granted Thackeray said referring to the income tax cuts in the budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala SitharamanBut it did not deal with the issue of unemployment which is at its peak the Shiv Sena UBT leader saidNot a single mention of Maharashtra is an outright insult to the state of Maharashtra the state that contributes the highest taxes including one of the highest GST consistently Aaditya Thackeray said in his reactionThe state doesnt get its due share of Goods and Services Tax in time nor does it get funds for development he said accusing the BJP of consistently neglecting Maharashtra in all the budgets since 2014Are we getting punished for electing the BJPs 100plus MLAs in all three state elections from 2014 to 2024 What is our sin that we are treated so badly by the BJP and its Union government the former state minister asked according to the PTIHe was very happy for Bihar Aaditya Thackeray quippedI am hoping the state Bihar has already got the Rs 125 lakh crore package promised by BJP in 2015 and then the big package the BJP promised in 2024I wonder if the current announcements truly fulfil the needs of the people of Bihar and if this is not a deviation from the ideology of the need for one nation one poll by the party that proposed it he addedWhile the finance minister spoke about investment in 120 new airports and mentioned Patna airport the budget was silent about the longpending demand of a new airport for Pune even though Pune MP Murlidhar Mohol is the Minister of State for Civil Aviation Aaditya Thackeray statedHe also sought to know about the airports which were started and shut down in the last ten yearsThe capital expenditure of Rs 111 lakh crore was proposed in the last years budget but Rs 101 lakh crore were actually spent and now the Narendra Modi government has proposed a capex of Rs 1121 lakh crore the Sena UBT leader saidThe people still face inflation when they buy staples like onion tomato and potato and what solution the government was proposing to make these items affordable without reducing farmers incomes he askedwith PTI inputs