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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?
Nirmala Sitharaman. Photo: X/@sansad_tv
Nirmala Sitharaman. Photo: X/@sansad_tv
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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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