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New Delhi: As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented ‘never before’ like Union Budget 2021-22, she quoted Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, to emphasise India’s ongoing struggle to combat Covid-19 pandemic. Sitharaman said that the preparation of this year’s Budget was under a circumstance like never before.
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark,” Sitharaman quoted Tagore just before she began with the Part A of her Budget presentation. Notably, invoking of Tagore comes in the wake of ruling party BJP eyeing a victory in the elections scheduled to be held in April-May in West Bengal.
I borrow the words from Rabindranath Tagore, "Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark". In this spirit, I can't help but recall the joy that we as a Cricket loving nation felt after Team India's recent spectacular success in Australia: FM pic.twitter.com/PPiC5RG15D
— ANI (@ANI) February 1, 2021
“The preparation of this budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before, in view of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country. But what we have endured with Covid-19 to 2020 is Sui generis,” she further said.
She also compared the economic recovery with that of India’s series win in Australia.
On Monday, Sitharaman broke the the tradition of carrying a Swadeshi bahi-khata and switched to a tablet. With the Union Budget set to be in paperless form due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Finance Minister was seen carrying a Made in India tablet, kept inside a red-coloured cover with a golden coloured national emblem embossed on it.
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