PM Narendra Modi made the customary remarks at the beginning of the Budget Session of Parliament on Friday. Friends, Today, at the beginning of the budget session, I bow to Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's customary pre-Budget speech on Friday, January 31, gave the nation's middle class something to look forward to in Budget 2025. Every year, the middle class is mostly disappointed as the government introduces more schemes to benefit the poor and hardly has anything for the section that pays for most services through direct taxation.