Union Budget Is By The People, For The People

New Delhi: Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, FM described the Union Budget as ‘by the people, for the people, of the people’, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fully behind the idea to cut taxes for the middle class, but it took time to convince the bureaucrats. “We have heard the voice of the middle class, who had been complaining about their aspirations not being met despite being honest taxpayers,” she said.

With the honest and proud taxpayers wanting the government to do more to limit the impact of factors like inflation, the prime minister was quick to task Sitharaman to look at ways to give relief.