Shashi Tharoor reacts to chancellor’s budget speech

He Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech on interim budget 2024 Thursday was not very well received. The speech is historically brief and for the first time has lasted less than an hour.

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What did Shashi Tharoor say about Budget 2024 speech?

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Shashi Tharoor called the speech ‘short and disappointing’ | Image: ANI

MP Shashi Tharoor walked out of parliament claiming that the speech did not achieve much and used “rhetorical language”.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor claimed that Sitharaman’s budget speech was one of the shortest on record and that she used ambiguous language. She stated that very few figures were used at the conference.

“It was one of the shortest speeches on record in the Budget. Not much came out of it. As always, a lot of rhetorical language, very little concrete on implementation. He talked about foreign investment without acknowledging that that investment has decreased significantly,” Tharoor said. .

Tharoor also described the budget speech as quite disappointing.

Shashi Tharoor described the budget speech as quite disappointing.

“He talked about a number of things that are expressed in vague language like ‘confidence’ and ‘hope’ etc. But when it comes to hard figures, there are very few figures available… This will be a very disappointing speech.” terms of being written entirely in generalities and without sufficient substance or will to address the specific problems of the economy,” he added.

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VIDEO | “I think the budget speech was short and disappointing. There was very little content, important omissions and many issues were not even touched upon,” says the Congress representative. @ShashiTharoor on the Union budget for 2024. #Budget2024WithPTI pic.twitter.com/CJakEku097

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) February 1, 2024

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