Congress MP Pramod Tiwari hopes Union Budget will offer further rebate in tax slabs for middle class

New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): As Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to present the first budget of the NDA 3.0 government on Tuesday, Congress MP Pramod Tiwari expects the focus of the budget to be on unemployment, inflation, and further rebates in income tax slabs for the middle class, among others.
Speaking to ANI, Tiwari said, "The middle class should get further rebates in income tax slabs. In the budget, what are they going to do for the farmers, unemployment, inflation and how will it be controlled? The way the rupee is falling, how will this issue be addressed?"
Hitting out the Modi government, the Congress MP said, "Will this budget be for some selected friends of PM Modi like the previous budget? Will anything be done for employment and small businesses?"
Congress MP Manickam Tagore alleged that the government was only working for the rich people.
"We all know that PM Modi's government for the past ten years has worked overtime for the big rich people. We can see that Adani has jumped to number 2 from 609 in the world ranking. This government works for the big corporates and they forgot about the 80 crore odd poor people who still live below the level of livelihood, who depend upon rations every day. It shows that the government for the past ten years has been on that route to make richer, richer and keep the poor, as poor. We hope that this budget starts thinking about the poor people. The majority of the poor Indians still believe that the government which has lost its majority from 303 to 240, and hence will work for the poor," Tagore alleged.
Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met President Droupadi Murmu ahead of presenting the Union Budget 2024 in Parliament, as per tradition.
The Finance Minister and her team briefed the President about the provisions of the budget.
President Murmu then fed the Finance Minister 'Curd and Sugar' which is a symbol of wishes for good luck.
The Finance Minister left the North Block offices of the Finance Ministry with a copy of the Union Budget 2024-25, which as has been tradition, is in a digital format.
The Finance Minister, along with her team, posed for a photo with the red 'Bahi Khatha' digital tablet before they left for Rashtrapati Bhavan.
This budget will mark Sitharaman's seventh consecutive budget, eclipsing the late Moraji Desai's record of six consecutive budgets, which is likely to focus on changes in the income tax structure and improving the ease of doing business in India.
The budget session of Parliament began on July 22 and, according to schedule, will end on August 12. (ANI)