Union Budget disappoints Indian middle class with no new benefits

The Union Budget offered no significant new benefits for the Indian middle class, continuing a trend of unmet expectations. The middle class is often invoked but ignored in fiscal policy, as Budgets prioritize larger constituencies over specific groups. This year's restrained document disappointed many by trying to please everyone. Budget Day has become a media spectacle with instant experts dissecting its implications, while the middle class returns to its routine of paying taxes and hoping for better times.