On the money

Initiating the Lok Sabha debate over the Finance Bill, Yashwant Sinha, senior BJP leader and chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on finance, was unsparing in his assessment of the government’s fiscal mismanagement, and yet stayed away from partisan opposition. He began with a jocular reference to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s possible elevation to “the big house”, Rashtrapati Bhavan, softening the mood.

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