Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister, on Feb. 1 presented his annual Budget, designed to help the Bharatiya Janata Party government win the next general election, due by April next year, but which might be brought forward to the end of this year. Jaitley’s broad aims in his last annual budget before the election were to show that the government cared for the less-well-off, and especially the rural poor, with a special focus on health and education where the government is strongly criticized for not having done enough since it was elected in 2014.
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Arun Jaitley, India’s finance minister, on Feb. 1 presented his annual Budget, designed to help the Bharatiya Janata Party government win the next general election, due by April next year, but which might be brought forward to the end of this year. Jaitley’s broad aims in his last annual budget before the election were to show that the government cared for the less-well-off, and especially the rural poor, with a special focus on health and education where the government is strongly criticized for not having done enough since it was elected in 2014.
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