Former PCC chief and senior Congress leader Ponnala Lakshmaiah ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that previous governments drafted the Union Budget with an eye on their vote bank and elections. At a press conference here on Friday, he said that the Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was indeed divisive with an eye on States going for elections and neglecting all the others. “Modi Ji, either you are playing ignorant or blind to what was promulgated in the Budget. Have you not doled out ₹3.5 lakh crore to election bound States like Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the Budget?”