Nirmala Sitharaman’s first Interim Budget | Puffed-up and poll-ready
[ad_1] Illustration: Soumyadip Sinha Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting her sixth Union Budget and her first Interim Budget, resisted the temptation to hand out dramatic pre-poll sops like the ones unveiled ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, opting instead to bank on the government’s track record and the promise of “unprecedented development” in the…