MANPREET, THE POET
Allama Iqbal, the 19th century Sialkot-born poet, continues to inspire finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, who during his third budget presentation in the Congress government, quoted verses penned by the poet. On Monday, the English translation of Allama’s verse FM quoted is, “This the law of nature, the way by her prescribed; he who treads the path of action is the nature’s favoured child.”