Bhopal: Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Megha Patkar raised questions on the budget and termed it as an anti-farmer budget. Megha Patkar said that the budget for farmers, education, and health has been reduced in the budget, which will encourage privatization. He said that after the farmer's movement, it was said that the government would give a big gift to the farmers in the budget, but by reducing the funds of the budget like Pradhan Mantri Kalyan Yojana, the government has cheated the farmers. 

Narmada Bachao Andolan leader and social worker Megha Patkar has raised questions on the budget of the central government by holding a press conference in Barwani. He accused the government that the way the budget has been presented is not right for farmers as well as for health and education. Megha Patkar said that the farmers were cheated in the budget. He said that it was expected from the budget of 2023-24 that something good would be given to the farmers in this budget because such a big farmer's movement had taken place. But the kind of budget that has been presented has only caused disappointment. 

Along with this, Megha Patkar said that less amount has been given in this budget than the amount allocated for the farmers in the budget 2022. At the same time, the allocation of the budget has also been reduced in separate funds for farmers like the Prime Minister's Welfare Fund, due to which the farmers will not get the right price for their produce, while the mandis should have been increased so that more goods of the farmers would be sold in the mandis. But while implementing the three laws, the government still wants to hand over the goods produced by the farmers in private hands. He alleged that people like Adani would benefit from this, their godowns would be overloaded with goods while the Auditor General's report shows that they have been paid more freight. But the government wants only those people to buy the goods of the farmers. He said that where the budget was supposed to increase under schemes like MNREGA, it has also been reduced. That is, the issues that are related to the public, Their budget has been reduced and all this has been done to promote privatization and to give exemption of loot. Taking a dig at Adani, Megha Patkar said that it is necessary to investigate every capitalist who is a criminal whose reality has also been revealed.

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