Initial reactions to the Interim Budget 2024 presented by Union Minister For Finance Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament on February 1 (Thursday) signal a limited political concurrence between Kerala’s ruling front and the Opposition that the Centre’s financial plan held no promise for the country’s youth, farmers or women.
Both the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition and the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) leaders opined that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre’s interim fiscal plan rendered crores of people, at the lowest income decile, to the bottom of the pile.
