Budget 2024: Former Union Finance Minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram remarked that the Nirmala Sitharaman presented Union Budget 2024-25 was a ‘virtual adoption’ of the Congress Manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
Chidambaram, at a press conference, said, “She (Nirmala Sitharaman) has virtually adopted the ideas underlying our proposals on Employment-linked Incentive (ELI) scheme, the Apprenticeship Scheme with an allowance to the Apprentice, and on the abolition of the Angel Tax. I wish she had adopted many more ideas from the Congress’ Manifesto.”.
The Union Budget 2024 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, 23 July, does ensure a big push for jobs, especially the youth entering the workforce.
Chidambaram chalked out certain aspects of the Union Budget to analyse in…