HT’s top editors decode Modi government’s Budget 2020-21

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her second Union Budget on Saturday, at a time when India is facing a consumption slowdown and economic growth is flagging. Did the government do enough in the Budget to reverse the declining trend? How will the people respond to the introduction of a new optional personal tax regime? And how did the government fare when it came to the tightrope walk between fiscal prudence and the need for greater expenditure? Watch the Budget analysis by Hindustan Times' Editor-in-Chief Sukumar Ranganathan, Editor - Views Prashant Jha, Editor - Data and Political Economy Roshan Kishore, and JNU Associate Professor Himanshu, for answers to these key questions.