The Economic Survey endorses the reforms recommended by various committees, but practically every move available to the FM would be seen as anti-poor by the Trinamool
Rare is the occasion when a finance minister has to present the national budget with the crippling uncertainty of his government’s existence gnawing at the back of the mind. As finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee has the unenviable job of reviving an economy teetering on the edge while as the United Progressive Alliance’s chief trouble-shooter, he has to ensure the government’s survival. Saving one could very well mean putting the other on life-support.