Union Budget 2025, Feb. 1 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2025 on Saturday, 1 February. While presenting, Sitharaman referred to Telugu poet and playwright Gurujada Apparao (1862-1915). The finance minister quoted, "Desamante matti kaadoyi, desamante manushuloyi" (Country is not just the mud and soil, Country means people).

This quote is from a classic Telugu poetry, 'Desamunu Preminchumanna'.

Gurujada Apparao was a feminist, a poet, writer, and a social reformist who openly talked about society and its discrimination towards women.

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