U.P. budget 2026: BJP’s farewell budget, lacks focus, says Opposition

Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday (February 11, 2026) hit out at the State Government, describing the budget as a farewell budget with no focus on common people, adding the departure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is certain in the upcoming 2027 assembly poll. Congress president Ajay Rai demanded a white paper on the projects and proposals that were sanctioned and implemented in the previous budgets.

“This is the last and farewell budget of the BJP government. The BJP has forgotten the promises made to the people. It is misleading the public only with figures and propaganda. There is nothing in the budget for the poor, for the farmers, for the youth. If the size of the budget is big, why hasn’t inflation come down? Why didn’t unemployment end?” asked the Samajwadi Party (SP) president, Akhilesh Yadav, in Lucknow.

Mr. Yadav alleged that the government has not been able to spend even 50% of the previous budget so far. “The per capita income of U.P. is second from bottom to second as compared to other states of the country. The government should tell what the capital income is of the poor who are being given rations,” he said.

U.P. Congress president Ajay Rai demanded a white paper on the projects and proposals that were sanctioned and implemented in the previous budgets. “We demand a white paper on the projects and proposals sanctioned and implemented in the previous budgets. The whole budget is a bogus exercise under the BJP government; most departments fail to spend the sanctioned amount of the last budget allocated to their departments. In 60 districts, medical colleges have been established but they lack basic infrastructure. We all know the districts numbering 37 in Purvanchal and Bundelkhand are backward in all indicators, but the government hasn’t given any special package to these regions,” Mr. Rai told The Hindu.

Congress also alleged that the budget is a document for advertisement of the government with no focus on marginalised sections. “In the budget, no emphasis is given to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs); the budget has become a document of advertisement and organised plunder by a selected group of politicians and officials under the BJP government; common masses and their needs are nowhere addressed in the budget,” said Anil Yadav, a senior Uttar Pradesh Congress leader.