First reactions on budget speech: No ration on ‘bhashan’, Pradhan Mantri re-election Yojana...

The ‘interim budget’ speech of Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday was greeted with ecstasy by BJP supporters and loads of scepticism by critics. People were quick to point out that what Piyush Goyal delivered was a ‘full budget speech’.

Nitin Desai on India Today's #SpeechAnalytica: "Budget 2019-20 or Pradhan Mantri Relection Yojana?"

With the Government having already presented five full budgets and barely 100 days of its term remaining, the legitimacy of the finance minister’s ‘pre-election’ speech, though expected, raised some eyebrows. A few select tweets are reproduced here.