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People in India's financial capital Mumbai walk past a screen showing Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech, July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas//File Phot

Modi faces middle class ire over budget as state polls loom

NEW DELHI, July 31 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, smarting from setbacks in the April-June general election, is now being berated for last week’s budget by the country’s swing voters, the middle class, putting his party on the defensive ahead of polls in three states and a federal territory. The budget raised taxes

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