India finance minister ditches 'colonial' briefcase to deliver budget

India finance minister ditches 'colonial' briefcase to deliver budget



India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose to abandon the “colonial” budget briefcase while presenting her maiden budget to parliament, choosing instead to flaunt a traditional bright-red ledger known as bahi-khata in Hindi.

July 5, 2019 at 07:00PMvia FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2S3poFS https://ift.tt/2FPlxr1