New Delhi, March 24 -- Lok Sabha on Monday took up discussion on the Finance Bill, 2025 with opposition members accusing the government of "patchwork solutions" and "flawed GST" and BJP members lauding the economic performance of the government saying that country's GDP has more than doubled in the last 10 years.

Initiating the discussion, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that the government's economic management faces deep-rooted structural challenges.

He took potshots at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. "Looking at this year's Finance Bill... I think she has slightly changed her tune. She is now telling taxpayers, 'I couldn't repair the roof, so I bought you an umbrella.' This Finance Bill is a classic case of patchwork solutions a...