The White Paper cherry picks data to tell the truth about UPA’s failures and the NDA government’s successes without touching upon UPA’s successes or its own failures. Here are the details.
From bad loans to high inflation, a slew of corruption cases to policy paralysis, the paper’s political imperative is clear: to draw the battle-lines in the run-up to the campaign for 2024. Its tone echoes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sharp attack on the Congress in his Parliament speeches earlier this week.
The Budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha, will be held between January 31 and February 9. The Interim Budget will be presented by Sitharaman on February 1.
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