New Delhi: AIDMK General Secretary J Jayalalitha termed the Tamil Nadu government’s budget for 2007-2008 as “insipid and dull’ on Friday.
On Saturday, she alleged that it was more like an accountant's annual statement of accounts rather than a budget presented for the welfare of people.
The budget had no new schemes and aimed at 'hoodwinking'' the people by trying to make them believe that all was well with the finances of the state, she charged in a statement in Chennai.
She also charged that the budget had tried to mislead farmers that the interest on crop loans had been reduced from seven per cent to five per cent.
The fine print would reveal that it had a rider by being applicable only to those who repaid the loan promptly, she added.
Stating that the DMK Government, which had given a ''burial'' to Farmers' Protection Scheme brought in by her previous Government, had now claimed that 57.3 lakh identity cards had been issued and funds would be allocated in the budget, she said.
The AIADMK supremo further added that a whole year has passed after the farmers had been deprived of welfare measures given by her Government.
It was to be seen whether the farmers would get the benefits at least in the new financial year, she added.
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