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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recited a Kashmiri poem during her Budget 2020 speech

Budget 2020: FM Sitharaman recites Kashmiri poem




Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recited a Kashmiri poem during her Budget speech
The verse referred to Kahmir's Shalimar Bagh and Dal Lake

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today recited a Kashmiri verse during her Budget 2020 presentation in the Parliament. The short verse paraphrases to talk about the nation "blooming like a lotus in Dal lake". It referred to Shalimar Bagh and Dal Lake in Kashmir.

Through this verse, the finance minister conveyed that the budget solely focussed on its "pyara watan" (beloved nation). After quoting the verse in Kashmiri, Sitharaman went on to translate it in Hindi:

"Humara watan khilte hue Shalimar bagh jaise, humara watan Dal Lake mein khilte hue kamal jaisa, nau jawanon ke garam khoon jaisa, mera watan tera watan, humara watan, duniya ka sabse pyara watan," the finance Minister quoted from the the poem by Pandit Dinanath Kaul.

This roughly translates in English as:

"Our nation is like a blossoming garden, like the blooming lotus on Dal Lake, like the warm blood of the youth. My nation, your nation, the world's most loved nation."

At the start of her Budget speech, the finance minister said that the three major themes of the Budget are aspirational India, a caring society and economic development for all.

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