'Woefully short of the hype': Congress slams 'completely hollow' Union Budget 2026

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor connected Sunday launched a scathing onslaught connected the Union Budget 2026–27, claiming the concern minister’s code was "fairly short" and "lacking specifics". He said the fund offered small reassurance to the mediate and lower-middle classes, further accusing the authorities of missing Kerala from the fund address.Speaking to quality bureau PTI, Tharoor said, "I think, by caller years’ standards, it was a reasonably abbreviated code and seemed to person tons of subheadings but precise fewer specifics. So it’s precise hard to cognize what to think. On the big-picture issues, determination was thing determination for the mediate people and the little mediate class. There was thing determination for the states."He added, "In fact, fiscal devolution remains unchanged astatine 41 per cent, and galore states bash not person capable wealth to fulfil their ain obligations to their citizens and voters.

That has go a genuine concern."