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New Delhi, Feb 1: Former Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Tuesday expressed his disappointment over the Union Budget 2022 presented today by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
“I was astonished, shocked that the Finance Minister was outlining a plan for the next 25yrs. Govt seems to believe that the present does not need any attention & the public can be asked to wait patiently until ‘Amrit Kaal’ dawns. This is mocking the people of India,” said P Chidambaram.
That's obviously on the behest of very rich people of the country. Instead of RBI, FM has virtually announced that Cryptocurrency is legal from today. Now all of this is not beneficial to 99.99% of people of India: Congress leader P Chidambaram,over taxes on virtual digital asset pic.twitter.com/reW4ZRvbsh
— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2022
He also said that the budget speech was the most capitalist speech to be ever read by an finance Minister.
“Today’s budget speech was the most capitalist speech to be ever read by an FM. The word ‘poor’ occurs only twice in para 6 and we thank FM for remembering that there are poor people in this country; people will reject this capitalist budget,” he added.
Notably, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had presented today her fourth budget, with the goal of keeping India’s status as the world’s fastest-growing economy.
The budget was released just days before the first round of voting in Uttar Pradesh, which will be joined by four other states in electing a new state administration.
