Rhetoric, Short And Disappointing: How Shashi Tharoor Rated Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget Speech

The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Interim Budget 2024 speech on Thursday, was not very well received. The speech his historically short and has ended under an hour for the first time.

What did Shashi Tharoor say about the budget 2024 speech?

Shashi Tharoor called the speech 'short and disappointing' | Image: ANI

MP Shashi Tharoor came out of the parliament claiming the speech didn't achieve much and used "rhetorical language."

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor claimed that Sitharaman's budget address was one of the shortest on record and that she used ambiguous language. He stated that very few figures were utilized in the lecture.

"It was one of the shortest speeches on record in the Budget. Not very much came out of it. As usual, a lot of rhetorical language, very little concrete on implementation. She talked about foreign investment without acknowledging that that investment has come down significantly," Tharoor claimed.

Tharoor also described the budget address as quite disappointing

Shashi Tharoor described the budget address as quite disappointing.

"She talked about a number of things which are couched in vague language like 'confidence' and 'hope' and so on. But when it comes to hard figures, very few figures available...This is going to be a very disappointing speech in terms of being couched entirely in generalities and without enough substance nor any willingness to address the specific problems of the economy," he added.

Check out the video here.

VIDEO | "I think the budget speech was both short and disappointing. There was very little of substance, major omissions and lots of issues were not even touched about," says Congress MP @ShashiTharoor on Union Budget 2024. #Budget2024WithPTI pic.twitter.com/CJakEku097

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