"Tamil Nadu Budget failed to meet public expectations": DMK MLA Thangam Thennarasu

DMK MLA Thangam Thennarasu on Wednesday criticised the Tamil Nadu Budget, saying that it "failed to meet public expectations." Speaking to reporters, Thennarasu said, "It has failed in every respect and didn't meet the expectations of the public, the stakeholders... With respect to the technical part of it, the Finance Minister released the white paper on the fiscal position of the state. In fact, when we were perceiving the figures given in this budget papers, we found that they contradict their own submissions... It has been made very evident that this government is again on the borrowing spree. In fact, the net borrowing is now, today, it…