Budget 2014 - Help us to die of happiness
PARTICIPATING in the Budget discussion, Dr.Shashi Tharoor said,
Since the Finance Minister did not favour us with the usual couplets we have become used to in Budget speeches, I thought I would offer him a couple that are appropriate to this story. The first, with your permission, Mr. Chairman, is this.
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured."The promise was to illuminate every home. Not even a lamp lights up the city today."
But, we, on this side of the House, are not surprised, Mr. Chairman. After all, as the immortal Ghalib put it,
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured."I lived by your promise as I knew that it was false. Would not I have died of happiness, if I had believed it to be true?"
I hope that the NDA Government will help us to die of happiness, Mr. Chairman, rather than live in false hope.