Union Budget 2024: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray Faction) leader Sanjay Raut during a press conference in Delhi on July 24, fired salvos at the Central Government over the new Union budget. During the address, he compared the Central Government with the East India Company and alleged them for bribing the Bihar and Andhra Pradesh state governments.
"A businessman from Gujarat used to bribe the East India Company to save his business, I think the same business group to save their power have bribed Nitish Kumar from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh's Chandrababu… Now Gujarat's business group has replaced the East India Company," said Sanjay Raut.