A Government of the Rich, For the Rich, By the Rich
NEW DELHI, March 11 -- At a press conference on February 1, 2024, following the presentation of Interim Budge by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, P Chidambaram, former Finance Minister, who presented a record 11 Union budgets, said: "By deliberate neglect over the last 10 years, the government has destroyed the demographic dividend story and dashed the hopes of millions of youth and their families. It is a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. The government is either ignorant or callous to the fact that the top 10% owns 60% of the nation's wealth and earns 57% of the national income and that income inequality has widened significantly in the last 10 years." He charged the budget to be silent on rampant unemployment an...
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