‘Woefully short of the hype’: Congress slams ‘completely hollow’ Union Budget 2026 | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Union Budget 2026–27, claiming the finance minister’s speech was “fairly short” and “lacking specifics”. He said the budget offered little reassurance to the middle and lower-middle classes, further accusing the government of missing Kerala from the budget address.Speaking to news agency PTI, Tharoor said, “I think, by recent years’ standards, it was a fairly short speech and seemed to have lots of subheadings but very few specifics. So it’s very difficult to know what to think. On the big-picture issues, there was nothing there for the middle class and the lower middle class. There was nothing there for the states.”He added, “In fact, fiscal devolution remains unchanged at 41 per cent, and many states do not have enough money to fulfil their own obligations to their citizens and voters. That has become a genuine concern.”