Lucknow: Taking to twitter Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi slams Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her ‘UP Type’ remarks. She questions why did Sitharaman insult Uttar Pradesh’s people. Priyanka Gandhi hits at Sitharaman after she described an answer as “UP type” during a press briefing after the presentation of the Union Budget 2022 on February 1. This comes only days before the state will begin voting in the Assembly election.
“You did not put anything in the budget for Uttar Pradesh. But what was the need to insult the people of UP like this? Understand, the people of UP are proud to be “UP type”. We are proud of the language, dialect, culture and history of UP,” Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.
Uttar Pradesh Congress tweeted supporting people of Uttar Pradesh. “We the people of UP are proud to be ‘UP type'” they tweeted, with the hashtag ‘UPMeraAbhimaan’.
On Tuesday The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented budget 2022-23 in the parliament. After presenting the budget, she in a Press Conference slammed Rahul Gandhi. On Tuesday after the budget was presented Rahul Gandhi taking to twitter had attacked on Budget and termed it as ‘zero sum budget’.
Following his remarks in a press conference Sitharaman Rahul Gandhi’s comment. She asked Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary to respond, who said, “You said Rahul Gandhi has not understood the budget, it is actually true. Nirmala Sitharaman will answer hereafter, all I have to say is that the Budget will reap benefits for all and the same will be evident in some time.”
It is then that Nirmala Sitharaman reportedly said, “I think he has given a typical UP type answer which is good enough for an MP who ran away from UP.”
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022 will be held from February 10 onwards in seven phases. The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
The last Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh (2017) were held in seven phases. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies had won 312 of the state’s 403 Assembly constituencies.
This time, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are likely to witness a four-cornered fight between the ruling BJP, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, the Congress and Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party.
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