Today’s Ten: Budget 2024 focuses only on BJP allies, youth
By Pradeep Damodaran in Media News on Wednesday, 24th July 2024 at 4:09pmCompulsions of coalition politics came to the fore as Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read the Union Budget 2024 on Tuesday with Bihar and Andhra Pradesh getting the lion’s share of the budget allocation apart from new schemes to boost employment and some tax relief for the salaried class.
Capturing the essence of the budget in their headline, the Hindustan Times lead piece titled “Coalition Economix” went on to summarise the finance minister’s seventh budget as one which “largely steered away from populist announcements, although chunks of the 85-minute budget speech were devoted to schemes and sops aimed at Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, two states governed by allies Janata Dal (United) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) whose support is crucial for the survival of the Natio...
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