Thursday’s Union Budget began with an unusual intervention from the Lok Sabha Speaker. A parliamentarian (a BJP MP from Maharashtra) had passed away, Sumitra Mahajan said, but the House would have to continue its business. Meanwhile, two other dead BJP MPs and a dead BJP MLA, all from Rajasthan, also made an intervention, in a manner of speaking. The by-election results from Ajmer and Alwar came in at the same time as Arun Jaitley began speaking, and hung over the entire speech like some spectre from a Shakespearian tragedy. More about that later. Prannoy Roy, the journalist, said this was
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