BUDGET DIARY

FINANCE MINISTER SITHARAMAN’S ASPIRATIONAL COLOUR

According to astrology, Saturday belongs to Saturn and the colour of the day is dark-blue. But finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman came wearing a bright yellow sari to present her second General Budget. Yelow is the colour for Thursday.

Those who believes in wearing colour of the day believes that yellow is the colour of aspiration. In fact, some journalists tweeted in the morning that the finance minister will present an aspiration budget. And lo and behold, while reading her speech, Ms Sitharaman mentioned several times that this was an aspirational Budget.

Ultimately, however, she could not finish her speech because she suddenly felt uneasy. Veteran MPs claimed that she is the first finance minister who could not read the full Budget speech.

TMC’S DOCTOR MP HELPED MINISTER TO BECOME STABLE IN THE HOUSE

A t the fagend of her Budget speech, Ms Sitharaman suddenly started sweating and was visibly feeling uncomfortable.

Watching this from the Opposition benches, TMC MP Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, who is a regular medical practitioner, realised that there was a problem and she rushed towards her and tried to shake her hands forcibly. Speaker Om Birla could not realise what the MP was doing and asked the MP to go back to her seat and not to disturb the minister.

Later Dr Kakoli explained that if someone stands for a long in one place, the pulse rate pulse rate could fall and blood circulation can get disturbed. In this situation someone has to bring her to her senses by pulling her hands. And that’s exactly what she tried to do.

At that point defence minsiter Rajnath Singh wanted to know from her how many pages were left in the speech. By that time she had spoken for 2 hours 40 minutes and the defence minister asked her to stop and lay the rest of the speech on the table of the House.

Kakoli Ghosh