<h1>Congress Leader Slams Union Budget 2025-26: Claims It Neglects Poor, Politically Motivated for Delhi Elections, Fails Employment Generation</h1> A Congress leader criticized the Union Budget 2025-26 as politically motivated, aimed at influencing Delhi elections, while neglecting the poor. He accused the Finance Minister of improving the fiscal deficit by reducing capital expenditure and grants to states, calling it poor economics. He highlighted the lack of philosophy in the budget, the failure to increase wages under MGNREGA and the Minimum Wages Act, and the neglect of the bottom 50% of the population. He also criticized the government's schemes for failing to generate employment and condemned the focus on income tax relief for the middle class.