Shashi Tharoor's Thumbs Up For This Big Budget Announcement
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The Congress MP said "far too little" was seen in addressing income disparity and added a "token gesture" was made on job creation.
His party, the Congress, has termed the Budget "nakalchi (copy-paste)", and Shashi Tharoor, who once ran for the top job in the party, echoed the sentiment and panned it as an "underwhelming" exercise. However, the Thiruvananthapuram MP found a positive too - the abolition of angel tax.
Angel tax refers to the income tax that the government imposes on funding raised by unlisted companies, or startups, if their valuation exceeds the company's fair market value.
"It is an underwhelming budget. I didn't hear anything about key issues facing the common man. There is no mention of MNREGA, and insufficient mention of steps taken to improve the income of a common person," Mr Tharoor told news agency ANI.
