The Budget session started on a high note after slogans of 'Modi-Modi' and 'Jodo Jodo Bharat Jodo' were echoed in the parliament building on Wednesday during the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget speech.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that the Union Budget 2023 would take India forward in the direction of the welfare of the poor.
Congress Lok Sabha Chief Whip K Suresh on Wednesday attacked the Centre ahead of the Union Budget 2023-24, saying that the government is completely ignoring the middle-class people from the last three budgets.
Sitharaman started her Budget speech at 11 am, the last full Budget of the Modi government in its second term. Like the previous two Union Budgets, Union Budget 2023-24 is also presented in paperless form.
The presentation of the Union Budget 2023-24 started with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's speech in the Parliament on Wednesday wherein she termed the Budget the "first budget in Amrit Kaal".
The Union Budget 2023 will be the "best" and pro-middle class budget, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Wednesday, ahead of the day's Lok Sabha session.
As only hours are left before Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the Union Budget for the financial year 2023-24, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary on Wednesday said that this budget would fine-tune with the expectations of the general public and that India'
This year's Budget presentation holds significance as it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government's last full budget before the next parliamentary elections in 2024, slated for April-May 2024.
Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday criticised President Droupadi Murmu's address to a joint sitting of the Parliament on the opening day of the Budget Session, saying that her speech skipped reference to important issues such as unemployment.