Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman chose to ditch the traditional budget briefcase. While posing along with her team with the Budget-2019 documents, the minister was seen without the usual budget briefcase. She was carrying budget documents wrapped in a red cloth. Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian reacted on FM Nirmala Sitharaman keeping budget documents in four fold red cloth instead of a briefcase and said, “It is in Indian tradition. It symbolizes our departure from slavery of Western thought. It is not a budget but a ‘bahi khata'(ledger)”
