Besides Pawar and Ramesh, former Union Ministers Rajiv Shukla, Ashwani Kumar and T Subbarami Reddy were among those who watched the presentation of the Budget in Lok Sabha from the VIP gallery.
Rajya Sabha members Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Derek O'brien, Vijay Goel, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Bhubaneswar Kalita, V Maitreyan, Ramdas Athawale, Pavan Kumar Varma and Biswajit Daimary were also present in the Lok Sabha VIP gallery.
Another notable visitor in the Lok Sabha gallery was industrialist and former Rajya Sabha member Rahul Bajaj, who was seen enthusiastically taking notes during the presentation of the Budget by Jaitley.
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