When Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her final full-budget speech for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s second five-year term, she was in a situation similar to the one faced by Congress leader P. Chidambaram when he was the finance minister of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2013. On both the occasions, the Indian economy was facing global headwinds, flight of foreign capital due to rising interest rates and an opposition levying charges of corruption and favouring certain industrialists.Â
As this will be the last full budget of the Modi government before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it is being said that the election glimpse will be apparent in the budget.Form
EVEN if you did not vote for him or his coalition, now is the time for Malaysians to unite and support Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his new unity government.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob will be tabling only his second federal Budget on October 7 but it could be the most significant one for his.