Budget Afterthought: Big hug to the middle class
Budget 2019 was a chronicle of achievements, a roadmap for the future, envisaging the return of the NDA, garnished with pre-poll populism, and finally, some warmth for the tax payer.
An effective way to detect a Budget’s underlying message is by tracking moments during the Finance Minister’s (FM) speech when the Opposition’s murmur becomes an incessant wail — the day of Budget 2019 was no different.
In the end, the present government’s last Budget before Elections was what many had
