The UPA Government have failed miserably. When the hon. Speaker was in the Chair yesterday before you, Sir, in a fit of anger, he cursed some hon. Members that they will not return back to this august House and they will not get elected again. I pray that curse be fallen from the people of this country on the members of the UPA. Mr. Deputy-Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak. I rise to support the Interim Budget as presented to this House by Shri Pranab Mukherjee who, in the words of the leader of the BJP, is the senior most Parliamentarian in India and also one of the most competent Ministers in the UPA Government. I was quite pained to hear unnecessary remarks by the previous speaker, Shri Ananth Kumar. He started by saying that Shri Pranab Mukherjee was like a night watchman in cricket. I do not know how many cricket matches he has watched. But I can tell him that many of that many night watchmen have scored centuries the next day and won matches. That is what this Budget is all about. When you formulate an Interim Budget, there are many constraints of precedence, of convention and of issues of propriety. So, you cannot tweak tax rates and you cannot give a Budget which is popolous or what people are expecting. Shir Ananth Kumar said that this Budget is like Satyam's Balance Sheet. I can only come to the conclusion that he does not know how to read the balance sheet of a company nor does he know how to read a Budget document. I take responsibility for saying this because I am going to explain what I mean. There have been a lot of criticisms of this Interim Budget, both in the newspapers and elsewhere. Whenever a Finance Minister presents a Budget in this august House, the people immediately expect.
