Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Budget on Thursday evoked strong reactions on Twitter after the much-awaited income-tax breaks for the salaried classes failed to materialise.
The Indian middle class, which has borne the brunt of the government's demonetisation and GST exercises, reacted sharply with tweets and a collection of GIFs to express their anger and disappointment.
From Jaitley's decision to not change the personal income tax slabs to mobile phones getting expensive, they slammed Jaitley only the way people with no other options left to express themselves could.
Union Budget 2018 has been called "one of the worst budgets" on social media. Here are a few GIFs that we selected for you.
Jaitley ji to Middle Class #Budget2018 pic.twitter.com/YIzr4N8Nzv
— Ritik (@RitikRai619) February 1, 2018
Middle class people trying to get something to cheer about in the budget!#Budget2018 pic.twitter.com/RJ8uu56mp6
— Cherry Dimple (@shailimore) February 1, 2018
Budget and Middle class pic.twitter.com/RFUnaz6ud5
— Rasna (@rasna1705) February 1, 2018
Benefit for Common Man Explained in 1 GIF#Budget2018 #RajasthanByPolls #पकौड़ा_बजट #CommonManKiBaatpic.twitter.com/WPYZe0makq
— Einstein: The GyanDu (@TheGyandu) February 1, 2018
Now u know why the "Middle Class" is called so!
— India ?? First (@SeCoolar_Right) February 1, 2018
Kyon ki is class ki "MC" ho jaati hai har Union Budget ke baad ?! #UnionBudget2018 & state of MiddleClass ? pic.twitter.com/toCfVAjMDA