People watch the live telecast of Union Budget 2025 at a showroom in Kolkata on February 1, 2025.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech was possibly the shortest she has delivered in her eight consecutive presentations, but it packed the strongest punch in terms of political implications, marking the possible return of the middle classes to the BJP fold.
On Saturday (February 1, 2025), Ms. Sitharaman announced a major rejig of tax slabs, providing long-awaited relief to the middle class. In the run up to the Assembly election in Delhi, a city that…