India, Feb. 1 -- Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the Union Budget presented by Nirmala Sitharaman, claiming that most of the new schemes are "beyond capacity" of the government.

"Budget is full of new schemes, programmes; many of these beyond capacity of this govt," PTI quoted Chidambaram as saying.

"Takeaway from Budget 2025-26 is that BJP wooing tax-paying middle-class, Bihar electorate. Bureaucracy will be happy with this Budget. The government's stranglehold on people's activities is getting tighter," Chidambaram, who served as finance minister in the governments headed by Dr Manmohan Singh, Inder Kumar Gujral and HD Deve Gowda, said."Economy will trudge along on old path...