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Interim budget, clear sign of early polls NEW DELHI, Sunday (AFP) The Indian government announced that an interim budget would be presented to parliament on February 3 in the clearest indication yet that the countdown to early elections has started. An interim budget for railways would also be presented to parliament on January 30, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a news conference. Normally, an interim budget is passed only to take care of government expenditures until polls are held. It does not contain the long-term economic policies announced during budget sessions every February. Swaraj said that the parliamentary session would begin with a meeting of the lower house on January 29 and another of the upper house the next day. She clarified that both the interim general budget and the railway budget would be presented, discussed and approved by both the houses separately in different meetings that will go on until February 5. Swaraj said that Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee met President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to inform him about the parliamentary schedule that the government wanted to follow. |
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