Deccan Chronicle

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Budget 2026-27 Brings Back Old Populist Rhetoric, But Its Still Muted

For quite some time now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet colleagues like commerce minister Piyush Goyal and railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have avoided mentioning challenges and problems. Theirs was unqualified optimism that the Indian economy is doing well, and it can only do better