Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the budget at 11 am on Wednesday in the Parliament and in nearly a two-hour address, she unveiled major announcements and rejigs.
As it is the last full budget for the Modi administration ahead of the polls, it naturally has drawn a pile of expectations from people of all walks of life.
What made this budget an interesting affair is that this will be the last full budget presented by the Modi administration ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
All eyes are closely watching how the government is going to tackle the crisis and uplift the younger generation who are caught up in the wave of job uncertainty.
We spoke with KE Raghunathan, the founder-chairman of Association of Indian Entrepreneurs, who is based in Chennai to seek his insights and demands on the Union budget.
It has been reported that the 63-year-old minister has been getting treated for a minor stomach infection and would be undergoing routine health checkup.
The movie was an enormous financial success, becoming the second-highest-grossing Kannada movie of all time and the second-highest-grossing Kannada movie of 2022.
Drawing major attention, Nirmala Sitharaman divulged that she speaks the country's official language with hesitation and recalled her college days in Tamil Nadu.
Nirmala Sitharaman said, "The Modi government is now giving free rice, including transport, storage, and logistics. Prime Minister's posters are not put up anywhere when they should be there throughout Telangana."
Taking a jibe at the Centre, Thiagarajan stated that the fashion of targeting Tamil Nadu is due to the reason that the state is performing well than the Centre.