Express instructions were left with reporters about the chief minister's inability to field questions from the media and sure enough, Banerjee left after her monologue without taking any questions from journalists present
Since she was appointed as the Union finance minister in 2019, Nirmala Sitharaman presented her second full budget on Monday . In 2020, she had presented an interim budget.
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties criticised the Union Budget 2021 for being visionless and said that the government failed on crucial areas such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presenting the budget in the Parliament on Monday said that the budget focuses on healthcare and infrastructure.
Ruling party leaders lauded the budget for its focus on a number of measures, including capital expenditure, tax exemption for senior citizens and incentives for start-ups among others.