Union Budget 2022 | ‘Most capitalist speech ever read by an FM’: Chidambaram

Rahul Gandhi calls it a ‘zero sum Budget’

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s was “the most capitalist speech ever read by a Finance Minister” and did “nothing” to deal with challenges like unemployment, loss of household incomes, per capita expenditure and inflation, said former Finance Minister P. Chidambaran on Tuesday.

Parliament may vote the Budget because of the ruling party’s “brute majority” in the Lok Sabha but the “people will reject this capitalist Budget”, said Mr. Chidambaram, while articulating the Congress party’s stance at a press conference. Chief spokesperson of the Congress Randeep Singh Surjewala was also present at the press meet.