TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the interim budget: “This is an Interim Budget. This is just a trailer of the budget which, after elections, will take India on the path to development.
“From middle class to labourers, from farmers growth to the development of businessmen, from manufacturing to MSME sector, from growth of the economy to development of New India, everyone has been taken care of in this interim budget.
“It’s the generosity and honesty of middle class and upper middle class which provides tax to the nation through which schemes are formulated and there is welfare of poor.
“There was always the demand to exempt those, with annual income upto Rs 5 lakh, from taxation. Our govt fulfilled this. “