Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the absence of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and representatives of various sections of the society from the meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for pre-budget consultation was shocking.
"It is astonishing that neither the Finance Minister was involved in the pre-budget discussion that Prime Minister Modi was holding nor were the representatives of different sections of society affected by the wrong policies of the government," Gehlot tweeted.
Gehlot further wrote, "She should have listened to the problems of farmers, laborers, unemployed youth and small traders."