Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician with the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), and has served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs since 2019 (this is as of March 2024). In the first Modi government, Sitharaman served as the Minister of Defence between 2017 and 2019, thereby becoming India’s second female defence minister and the second female finance minister after Indira Gandhi, and the first full-time female minister to hold each of those portfolios.
Sitharaman first joined the BJP in 2004 and was appointed party spokesperson six years later. She was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2014. While presenting her first budget, she made a statement by replacing the traditional budget briefcase with a ‘bahi-khata’ with the National Emblem to carry the speech and other documents.
Improvement of health infrastructure is seriously missing in the budget. While the economic survey expressed concerns about obesity, one expected a fillip to health infrastructure.
Congress plus cow. If there were royalty payments for IPR, Shri Arun Shourie could live off this phrase for the rest of his life.
“…leadership that has spent too much time reflecting on why it came up so short in the elections…” what do you mean by this: Is unemployment not a worthy enough issue to reflect?
Trickle down will not work in India, it will keep increasing the money inequality.
There is only one economic theory that should be followed: solve those problems first that will provide maximum benefit to maximum number of people for longest time. Socialism doesn’t fit this theory but so does trickle down crony capitalism.