India, Feb. 3 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2025-26, calling it the "friendliest budget for the middle-class in the history of the country" and attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government for alleged "rampant corruption, and false promises", while appealing to the people to help form a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the Capital.

Speaking in RK Puram on his third and final rally ahead of the crucial Delhi assembly elections, Modi sharpened his attack against Delhi's ruling party, labelling it AAPda (calamity) once again.

The PM said the AAP was disintegrating, in an apparent reference to the eight former AAP MLAs who quit the party and joined the BJP on Saturday.

"In Delhi, the...