It is one of those enduring half-truths that Modi’s politics is joined at the hip with the interests of ‘middle class’. Budget this year, which has given the biggest single tax-break for the taxpaying classes in decades, will solidify this presumption in the minds of the commentariat, and especially those who think of themselves as belonging to the middle class, even if they drive SUVs and send their children to study abroad.
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