New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Monday criticised the Union Budget 2026-27 and questioned the status of announcements made in the previous year's budget, and alleged that the promises made in this year's budget will never be fulfilled.

Speaking to ANI, Chidambaram said these budgets have become mere exercises in grand announcements.

"If this is going to be the takeoff flight for 2047, what about the earlier budgets which the same Finance Minister gave? Were they not 'take off' budgets? These budgets have now become the exercises of ground announcements. Everybody gets taken in by these grand announcements without really pausing to think about what happened to the ground announcements made previously in the previous...