Letter to BS on 'Budget 2018: Well crafted, but fiscal stress shows'

The Budget 2018 had more questions than answers

This is with reference to “Well crafted, but fiscal stress shows (February 2). It is evident that the Budget was pieced together to look pro-poor more out of compulsion than conviction. It took the shape on account of people’s distress and disillusionment and BJP’s awareness that playing the Hindutva card alone would not get it through the elections in 2019. The Budget became easily amenable to the charge of window dressing. 

The government that has a lot to answer sought to favour the impoverished multitudes by announcing a slew of unfeasible schemes and sops outgrowing its ill-disguised hostility to hand-outs. Announcing