Budget 2019: Neither Interim, nor Substantial

Budget 2019: Neither Interim, nor Substantial

Budget 2019: Neither Interim, nor Substantial In a pre-election budget speech filled with propaganda about the supposed developmental achievements of the Narendra Modi government, acting finance minister Piyush Goyal read out a text that both window-dressed the revised estimates and violated all norms that should apply to an interim Budget.   Even while engaged in…