Jaitley’s outreach: Bilingual Budget speech
In a break from tradition, Finance Minister A run Ja it ley is likely to deliver significant portions of his Budget speech on Thursday, particularly those related to the farm sector, in Hindi.
In his previous four Budgets, the FM, who is a dept at speaking in both English and Hindi, has been known to intersperse his mostly English speech with Hindi and Ur du couplets and explanatory observations.
However, sources said the FM’ s fifth and final Budget speech of the current term of the Na rend ra Mo di government will be truly bilingual, with Ja it ley speaking at length in Hindi to reach out to the Hindi heart land.
Recently, Prime Minister Na rend ra Mo di received much appreciation for delivering his speech at the World Economic Forum( WE F) inDavosinHindi.
External Affairs MinisterS ushm aS war aj has consistently spoken in Hindi at media interactions with visiting dignitaries and on international forums, such as the United Nations General Assembly. Former prime minister AB Vaj payee had, as India’ s external affairs minister, addressed the UN General Assembly in Hindi for the first time in the late 1970 s. The Budget is expected to address rural distress and the common man by focusing on agriculture, job creation, and health. The speech will be the government’ s way to reach out to the common man to present its most important economic document.