Aam Aadmi Party’s Sanjay Singh attacked the BJP-led Modi government during the discussion on Union Budget 2024 in Rajya Sabha on July 25. Singh criticised the government for reducing budget allocations for sectors such as defence, health, agriculture, education and transport. He also sarcastically demanded the government to increase the budget of prisons. Participating in the discussion on the Union Budget 2024-25 in Rajya Sabha, Singh claimed to ‘arrest and put in jail’ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other opposition leaders and alleged that the government’s aim is not to provide justice in such cases.
Singh said that along with agriculture, health, transport, pension and energy sector, the budget of science department and jail has also been reduced. He said, “Increase the budget of jail. You have sent me to jail now. Tomorrow you have to come to jail. Increase the budget of jail, fix the jail. Next is your turn. At least fix the jail.” At that time, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, who was present on the chair, told the leader of the house JP Nadda that Sanjay Singh’s appeal is ‘very touching’ and he should pay attention to it because it also has a ‘background’. Nadda said on this, “It will be taken care of, Chairman Sir.”
Sanjay Singh also raised the issue of alleged misuse of investigative agencies and alleged that the Delhi Chief Minister was “arrested and put in jail”, whose blood sugar level has dropped below 50 36 times. He also raised the issue of arrest of AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut in various corruption cases. He said, “Your aim is not to get justice. Your aim is to keep us in jail. The more you put us in jail, the deeper you will go. Whoever has done this politics will be finished. You have reached 240 now, tomorrow you will reach 24 and then two.”
