PM Modi praises Budget 2025 targeting Congress, says, ‘If you earned Rs 12 lakh in Nehruji’s and Indira ji’s time…’

New Delhi: A day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Finances 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, 02 February 2025 mocked dilapidated dilapidated high ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi as he claimed that Congress governments imposed heavy taxes on americans’s earnings whereas the Central authorities below him has eased the tax burden and provided better relief to the center class.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made these feedback at some stage in a public meeting sooner than the Delhi Meeting election, at RK Puram in New Delhi on Sunday, February 2, 2025.

“Let me expose a list sooner than you. This can wait on you to know greater and diagram it more straightforward to existing to others. If we possess a examine this funds—wait on in Nehru Ji’s time, when you earned Rs 12 lakh, the authorities would seize away one-fourth of your wage as tax. If this were Indira Ji’s abilities, you would be insecure to listen to that out of Rs 12 lakh, virtually Rs 10 lakh would scramble into taxes. That became the receive 22 situation wait on then, which is why I'm explaining this this day,” acknowledged PM Modi including that whereas a Rs 12 lakh earnings meant paying Rs 2.6 lakh in tax below Congress rule, basically the most modern funds presented by his authorities ensures zero tax on the identical earnings.

“Even 10–12 years prior to now, below a Congress authorities, when you earned Rs 12 lakh, you had to pay Rs 2,60,000 in taxes. Now, after the day prior to this’s BJP authorities funds, a person incomes Rs 12 lakh in a three hundred and sixty five days is now not going to possess to pay even a single rupee in tax,” he acknowledged.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, February 1 whereas presenting the Finances 2025 announced that folk incomes as a lot as Rs 12 lakh per three hundred and sixty five days is now not going to possess to pay earnings tax which she acknowledged became a step to wait on the center class.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whereas praising the Finances, acknowledged that it's a “americans’s funds” because it places extra cash in the palms of americans and it's a power-multiplier that may amplify investments and lead to suppose.