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New Delhi<\/strong>: The Congress on Tuesday jabbed finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman after she presented the Union Budget 2024-25, calling it the \u2018Congress Manifesto\u2019.<\/p>\n Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on X,\u201dI am glad to know that the Hon\u2019ble FM has read the Congress Manifesto LS 2024 after the election results. I am happy she has virtually adopted the Employment-linked incentive (ELI) outlined on page 30 of the Congress Manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am also happy that she has introduced the Apprenticeship scheme along with an allowance to every apprentice spelt out on page 11 of the Congress Manifesto. I wish the FM had copied some other ideas in the Congress Manifesto. I shall shortly list the missed opportunities,\u201d Chidambaram, who served as finance minister in past governments led by HD Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral and Dr Manmohan Singh, added.<\/p>\n Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also slammed the Modi government, saying, \u201cAfter ten years of denial \u2013 where neither the non-biological PM nor his party\u2019s Lok Sabha Elections Manifesto would even mention jobs \u2013 the Union Government seems to have finally come around to tacitly admitting that mass unemployment is a national crisis that requires urgent attention.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s far too late, and as it turns out, far too little \u2013 the Budget speech is more focused on posturing than action,\u201d he added in a series of X posts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday jabbed finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman after she presented the Union Budget 2024-25, calling it the \u2018Congress Manifesto\u2019. Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on X,\u201dI am glad to know that the Hon\u2019ble FM has read the Congress Manifesto LS 2024 after the election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nirmala-sitharaman-twitter-16657989823x2-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36434,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36432\/revisions\/36434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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