With a Farmer-first Budget, the Prime Minister Has Taken a Calculated Risk Going Into the General Elections. Will It Work for Him?
BUDGET 2018 WAS A Modi moment. Without doubt. And as with everything he does, he made sure everyone knew it. Soon after the Union budget was tabled in Parliament, the prime minister, pen in one hand and notepad in the other, went on national television and for a good 25 minutes spoke on its highlights with admirable fluency. He was acutely aware that this is his government’s last full-fledged budget before the general elections. So every word he spoke had an underlying message for the electorate: I am your prime sevak. I care for you, I care for our country, I am a problem-solver and I am thinking not of the next election but the next generation.
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