Lucknow, July 02: Terming the economic survey report tabled in Parliament by the UPA government as "false" and "based on fake data", Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday appealed to the Centre not to implement its suggestions in the budget.
"The Economic survey report is based on false data. The
Centre should not incorporate its suggestions in its budget so
that poor people could be benefited," Mayawati told reporters
here.
"Such a (economic survey) report can be prepared by
those who had taken education from Harvard University as they
did not know ground realities," Mayawati said.
She said, in February the centre had claimed that
economic growth rate was 7 per cent, whereas in the survey it
had been projected at 6.01 per cent.
Mayawati alleged that majority of the suggestions
incorporated in the survey were made while keeping in mind
industries, multi-national companies and capitalists and that
issues of the common and poor people were discarded.
"By suggesting disinvestment of nationalised banks, the
Centre has hinted towards their privatisation. Such measures
would pose A serious threat to country's economy," she
claimed.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee tabled the
report in Parliament today.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, July 02, 2009, 22:07