Interim Budget has enough to galvanise Sangh Parivar workers for elections

With Lok Sabha elections less than 70-days away, the challenge for the Narendra Modi government was to overcome, or somewhat neutralise, the opposition’s criticism of it having been a ‘suit boot ki sarkar’ that failed to prevent farm distress and caused immense job losses with its demonetisation and “hurried implementation” of the goods and services tax (GST).

Experts and opposition parties will now sit down to analyse the budget documents to look at the fine print, particularly on the promises of