Advani also added that at the end of this government’s five-year tenure there may be people in the top financial brackets who may be happy that they have become multi-millionaires or billionaires, but the Aam Admi feels badly let down.

Soaring prices of essential commodities, more particularly of food stuffs, have made the house-hold budget of the middle class and poor go absolutely haywire. Since last year an even more agonising problem has been the problem of rapidly mounting unemployment initially because of our own mismanagement of the economy, and later because of the global meltdown, he added.

Advani also added that in his speech Mukherjee said "the real heroes of India’s success story were our farmers. Through their hard work, they ensured ’food security’ for the country." What a cruel irony it is that this government hails farmers for providing food security to the country and yet in these very five-years tens of thousands of Kisans have been committing suicide. Farmers provided the nation with food security, and the government has miserably failed to provide even security of life to these "real heroes"!

This is the last budget of UPA’s five-year term. This is indeed a farewell budget, and it does provide ample justification why the people also should bid farewell to the Congress and this government, he added