Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget being praised for its honesty. Why is that being considered 'brave'?

Having been criticised by analysts and the CAG, the government is finally coming clean on the numbers.
Feb 02, 2021 · 09:29 am
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leaves the Finance Ministry to present the annual budget in parliament in New Delhi on February 1.
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In the run-up to Budget 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech was being touted as the most important in a generation. As the first Budget in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sitharaman would be charting out a road-map for India’s post-crisis future – not counting several economic packages over 2020 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to as mini-budgets.

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