I wish that the Bhartiya Janata Party should dissociate from these types of things, disband these types or organizations. They should come out of the communal politics. Then, only they can play a proper role in the Indian politics. Sir, with these few words, I would like to say that the Interim Budget is disappointing. It is helping only the rich; and it is not helping, in any way, the Indian poor, whose life is becoming miserable because of the globalization and because of the International recession. That is why, over the last four to five years, it was able to reduce the revenue deficit considerably and also the fiscal deficit. But for this year alone, every year the target fixed has been fulfilled by the Government and the Government was nearly approaching to the level of eradicating the revenue deficit and making it to zero. But for the interim happenings in the international arena, perhaps the Government would have achieved those targets also. So, taking all this into account, I find that this Government was able to make a kind of innovative approach to budget-making and also accountability to the people. Madam, today the fundamentals of the Indian economy are very strong as the earlier Finance Minister used to say that today, we have a robust economy. In the last four to five years, our growth rate has been hovering between 8.5 per cent and 9.5 per cent. Today, because of the world recession and because of the developments outside the country, we find stagnation, there is slowing of growth, but even here, one has to admit that if the fundamentals of Indian economy had not been strong, if the banking system in the Indian economy had not been strong, perhaps India would have slipped further down to a growth rate between 3 per cent and 3.5 per cent. When the whole of world economy is growing between 4 per cent and 4.3 per cent, Indian economy is able to maintain even today a growth rate of 7.2 per cent in spite of the world or global recession.
