Netizens respond to PM Modi’s comment on Budget 2024 empowering ‘neo-middle class’
Netizens respond to PM Modi’s comment on Budget 2024 empowering ‘neo-middle class’
Subsequent to the announcement of Union Budget 2024 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, PM Modi lauded the budget and saying that it will empower the newly emerged ‘neo middle class’ and that it will give a boost to India’s new middle class.
On Tuesday PM heaped praise on the Union Budget 2024 as a tool to empower all sections of society and that it will strengthen India’s newly emerged “Neo Middle Class” income group.
In his comment on the budget PM Modi said that this is a budget that will take the country’s villages, poor and farmers on the path of prosperity. In the last 10 years, 25 crore people have come out of poverty. This budget is a budget for the continuation of the empowerment of the newly emerged Neo Middle Class.
He further added that the announcements made in the Union Budget 2024 will strengthen the middle class. The budget also shows up strong plans to empower the tribal society, Dalits and backward classes.
Even as many social media users appreciated the Union Budget, many others wondered over its benefits for middle-class people.
A social media user on X wrote that “as usual, another gimmicky budget, nothing for the tax-paying middle class, more freebies and more benefits for BJP’s industrialist billionaire donors.
Another user in reference to the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, providing free ration to 80 crore people in the country wrote that 25 crore people have come out of poverty, 80 crore are getting free ration.
Yet another user wrote in.X that the Budget 2024 targets for balanced growth and long-term development, targeting a 4.9% fiscal deficit and ₹11.1 lakh crore for capital infrastructure spending. PM Modi’s strategy is exactly on.
Another post in X read that
PM Modi lauds Budget 2024 as transformative for the middle class, women, and MSMEs, fostering inclusive growth and economic resilience. A budget for every Indian!
This is not for the first time when, PM Modi has mentioned the term ‘neo-middle’ class in his speech. The word was also mentioned in BJP’s manifesto released for Gujarat elections in 2012. In the manifesto, Narendra Modi (then Gujarat Chief Minister) mentioned special measures for the lower middle class, by referring them as ‘neo-middle class’.
News Edit K.V.Raman
