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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday tore into the Opposition for creating a “false narrative” of the Budget being pro-rich. The government’s priority and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideology are to take care of the people at the bottom of the pyramid and, at the same time, respect wealth creators and taxpayers, she said while replying to the general debate on the Budget 2021-22 in the Rajya Sabha.
Listing a series of measures the government has taken for the poor over the past few years, Sitharaman said she believed entrepreneurs in India should also be respected rather than constrict
