Highlighting that not a single word was used about cash assistance to the poor, those who lost their jobs or about reviving MSMEs, Chidambaram added, “By any standard, today’s budget speech was the most capitalist speech ever read by a Finance Minister. The FM has mastered the jargon of capitalist economics.”“Read her speech again: count the number of times she used the words digital, portal, IT-based, paperless, database, ecosystem, global, atmanirbhar. The word ‘poor’ occurs twice in paragraph 6, and we thank the FM for remembering that there are poor people in this country,” said the Former Finance Minister.The senior Congress leader came down heavily on the Modi government for taking away subsidy which he said “has been cut by a humongous 27 per cent.”
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