Nirmala Sitharaman Invokes Tagore in Budget Speech, Twitter Asks Eye on West Bengal Polls?
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman started her Budget 2021 speech with a poem. In what was seen as yet another nod to the upcoming elections in West Bengal, Sitharaman symbolically started this year s Budget by quoting Nobel laureate and Bengali icon Rabindranath Tagore to describe India s battle with the coronavirus pandemic.
Quoting Tagore, one of the most prominent poets from West Bengal, Sitharaman said, Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark , Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore had opined! This moment in history is the dawn of a new era, where India is well-poised to be the land of promise and hope .