Gujarat’s Finance Minister Nitin Patel on Tuesday presented a budget of over Rs 2 Lakh crores for the financial budget sources said.
Although the budget was allotted, yet again the minority community in Gujarat has been ignored with no budget allotment as this privilege has been denied again to all the minority communities in Gujarat, Caravan Daily reports.
In addition to this, the government has also refused to implement central schemes that are specifically meant for minorities in the state.
“While taking oath, he had showered a lot of love for the minorities but not a single paisa has been allocated for them in the budget which had been presented yesterday, and neither is there any mention of the word minority,” Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani tweeted on 2 July.
Shamshad Pathan and Mir Khan two social activists from Gujarat said the Minorities have not been receiving the allotment for quite a very long time now and that none of the political parties nor the secular parties have addressed the issue.