Spelling out the Budget – where highlights of the finance bill live up to FM's name
The Times of India Hyderabad|February 04, 2021
There are 16 letters in Nirmala Sitharaman’s name. Among her predecessors, they are matched by TT Krishnamachari, but pipped by the likes of RK Shanmukham Chetty, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, the two Chavans, Yashwantrao B and Shankarrao B, and Sachindra Chaudhuri.
Bachi Karkaria
Spelling out the Budget – where highlights of the finance bill live up to FM's name

One may note that Our Lady of the Hour has five ‘a’s in her full name. Would that make her the top A-Lister, since the Maha Mantri boasts merely two, as does his partner in the ruling Gujugalbandhi? Nah, let’s not go by this since Madam FM may have twice the number of ‘i’s, but we all know who has twice the ego. Instead, let us see how the letters, ‘N-i-r-m-a-l-a-S-i-t-h-ar-a-m-a-n’, uncannily encompass the main points of Budget 2021-22.

Newness, for which this edition has been much rah-rahed. It is also a ‘Nifty job’ as one expert cleverly called it. Nationalisation has been given the danda, even if Nationalism is BJP’s most-waved jhanda.

Infrastructure is one of this Budget’s two main pillars. The building block of progress, a fiscal multiplier, a jobs-provider – and, most of all, an election winner.

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