Goyal said triumphantly, “Humne Kamar-tod inflation ki kamar tod di.

New Delhi: Rising to present the budget, Piyush Goyal, who is stepping in to present the Union Budget on behalf of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, lauded the work of the government in bringing down prices. He cited the previous government's inability to tackle inflation. On the contrary, he said, bringing down prices was a major achievement of the NDA government. He said that inflation had been brought down from close to 10% to first around 4% and then just over 2%.

Goyal said triumphantly, “Humne Kamar-tod inflation ki kamar tod di (We have broken the back of the back-breakingly painful price rise)”. Goyal then said that their success in keeping prices in check has saved 30-40% expenditure on basic necessities like food and clothing in an average household. The minister also counted among the government’s success the rise in incomes of farmers and the narrowing of the purchasing power divide between rural and urban India.