Budget 2024-25: Nitish's Bihar, Naidu's Andhra Pradesh Win Big; No Significant Income Tax Relief

While the NDA's key partners in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar have got big pushes, is the income tax relief enough?

The Wire Staff

Jul 23 2024

While the NDA's key partners in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar have got big pushes, is the income tax relief enough?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Photo: X/@sansad_tv

The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has presented the Budget for the financial year 2024-25 today. While the Economic Survey of the previous financial year – presented a day ago – raised more questions than answers, the Budget appears to have heeded middle class anger.

This is also the first Budget being presented by a Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party which does not have the majority in the Lok Sabha – a fact which places its attention to key states ruled by coalition partners under closer scrutiny.

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Budget 2024-25: Nitish's Bihar, Naidu's Andhra Pradesh Win Big; No Significant Income Tax Relief

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