Budget 2025: FM begins Budget speech with focus on middle-class; says 'a country is not just its soil...'

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, emphasizing strategies to boost post-pandemic economic growth, leverage private investments, and enhance consumer spending. She highlighted the government's commitment to inclusive development and quoted poet Gurzada Apparao to underscore the focus on people, aiming for zero poverty under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership.