"Doing An 'Elon Musk'?" P Chidambaram On Budget Cut For Foreign Ministry

"Doing An 'Elon Musk'?" P Chidambaram On Budget Cut For Foreign Ministry

Congress leader P Chidambaram has pointed out the reduced allocation for the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in the Union Budget and wondered if Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was doing an "Elon Musk" on the foreign ministry. In a budget presented by Ms Sitharaman on February 1, the MEA was allocated a total of Rs 20,516 crore as against the current fiscal's budget estimate of Rs 22,154 crore and revised estimate of Rs 25,277 crore. Mr C…