Wooing A Fatigued Middle Class, Keeping Allies Happy: Why Modi Sarkar Will Need to Walk the Tightrope in This Budget
News 18The question on everyone’s mind right now is if the Narendra Modi government will follow the Maharashtra budget model at the Centre. The BJP’s national tally too dropped from 303 to 233, prompting people to ask if Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget will be more flexible this time and appease two primary concerns of PM Narendra Modi — the middle class, which isn’t as infatuated with the BJP as it was in 2014, and the two key allies who can smell an opportunity for their home states. KEEPING THE TDP, JDU HAPPY It’s not just the middle class that is the government’s concern; they also have the compulsion to keep two of their core allies — TDP and JDU — happy. Just before the Union budget, PM Modi granted TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu’s two major wishes — petrochem hub and an oil refinery. While it hasn’t been pressed with urgency, Naidu would also need central assistance for welfare measures on whose promise the NDA government came to power in Andhra Pradesh uprooting Jahan Mohan Reddy.
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