印媒：莫迪谈预算案，祈求拉克希米女神赐福给穷人和中产阶级

'I pray to Lakshmi to bless poor, middle class': PM Modi on Budget

莫迪总理谈预算案：“我祈求拉克希米女神赐福给穷人和中产阶级”

NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Friday sought "special blessings" of Goddess Lakshmi for the middle class and poor, fuelling expectations that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may give relief to taxpayers and announce more welfare measures for the needy.

"Today, at the begng of the Budget session, I bow to Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity. And on such occasions, for centuries, we have been remembering (her) virtues. Ma Lakshmi gives us success and wisdom, prosperity and well-being. I pray to (her) that every poor and middle-class community of the country should be blessed..." Modi said.

The hope of Sitharaman announcing such special measures was raised afterwards by President Droupadi Murmu in her address to a joint sitting of Parliament. "The economic progress of a nation like India is defined by the aspirations of the middle class and fulfilment of those aspirations," she said.

新德里消息：周五，莫迪总理祈求财富女神拉克希米给予中产阶级和穷人 “特别的祝福”，这引发了人们的期待，即财政部长尼尔马拉·西塔拉曼可能会为纳税人提供减免，并为贫困人群宣布更多福利措施。

莫迪表示：“今天，在预算会议开始之际，我向财富女神拉克希米致敬。几个世纪以来，在这样的场合，我们一直铭记着她的美德。拉克希米女神赐予我们成功与智慧、繁荣与安康。我祈求她保佑我国的每一个穷人和中产阶级群体……”

随后，总统德鲁帕迪·穆尔穆在对议会联席会议的讲话中，进一步燃起了人们对西塔拉曼宣布此类特别措施的希望。她说：“像印度这样的国家，其经济进步是由中产阶级的愿望以及这些愿望的实现所定义的。”

Many in govt feel affection of middle class and poor should be reciprocated

The bigger the dreams of the middle class, the higher the nation soars. It is my govt that has, for the first time, openly acknowledged and appreciated contributions of the middle class on every occasion," President Droupadi Murmu said as she listed welfare measures taken by Modi govt since 2014. The President's address is seen as a declaration of govt's intent

The middle class and a chunk of the poor have largely stood by Modi. Although his govt, as Murmu stressed, has reduced the tax burden and has also widened and deepened the welfare net, there seems to be a feeling in govt that the affection of the two constituencies needed to be reciprocated. This ties in with the opinion of many economists that relief to the middle and new-middle classes will help govt's effort to accelerate growth by boosting consumption.

政府中许多人认为应回应中产阶级和穷人的喜爱

总统德鲁帕迪·穆尔穆在列举莫迪政府自2014年以来采取的福利措施时表示：“中产阶级的梦想越宏大，国家飞得越高。正是我的政府，首次在各种场合公开认可并赞赏中产阶级的贡献。” 总统的讲话被视为政府意图的宣告。

中产阶级和大部分穷人在很大程度上支持莫迪。尽管正如穆尔穆所强调的，他的政府减轻了税收负担，扩大并深化了福利体系，但政府内部似乎有一种看法，即需要回应这两个群体的喜爱。这与许多经济学家的观点一致，即对中产阶级和新兴中产阶级的减免将有助于政府通过促进消费来加速经济增长。

Murmu flagged the recent decision to constitute 8th Pay Commission for central govt employees.

"Govt employees are significant representatives of the middle class. So, this decision will lay the foundation for substantial salary increases for govt employees in the coming years," she said.

"Centre has decided to provide 50% assured pension to lakhs of employees under Unified Pension Scheme, which is widely welcomed. My govt is committed to fulfilling the middle class's dream of owning a home. Laws like RERA have been introduced to safeguard their dreams.
Subsidies on home loans are being provided," she added. Murmu said through the UDAN scheme, about 1.5 crore people had fulfilled their dream of flying.

穆尔穆提到了最近为中央政府雇员设立第八薪酬委员会的决定。

她说：“政府雇员是中产阶级的重要代表。因此，这一决定将为未来几年政府雇员大幅加薪奠定基础。”

她还补充道：“中央政府已决定根据统一养老金计划，为数十万雇员提供50%的有保障养老金，这广受好评。我的政府致力于实现中产阶级拥有住房的梦想。已出台像《房地产监管法》（RERA）这样的法律来守护他们的梦想，还在提供住房贷款补贴。” 穆尔穆称，通过 “乌丹” 计划（UDAN scheme），约1500万人实现了飞行的梦想。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：

Anthony Joseph

Joke by PM. So PM finally acknowledges that middle class and poor have been crushed with his economic policies in the last 10 years.

莫迪总理这是在开玩笑吧。莫迪总理终于承认，在过去10年里，中产阶级和穷人被他的经济政策压得喘不过气来了。

John
Pray to Nirmala! Joker Feku! Had made life miserable for people in the last 11 years and now making crude jokes!

向黑公交轮奸案的受害者尼尔马拉祈祷吧！小丑莫迪！在过去11年里让民众生活悲惨，现在还开这种低俗的玩笑！

Yoga N Mani
The Brit taught us everything about good Governance
The Brit ended his lesson by telling us "Laxmi helps those who help themselves"
To the best of my knowledge no Laxmi Pooja was held in the morning before the Election Bonds Bill was passed in 2015.

英国人教会了我们如何良好治理。英国人临走时告诉我们 “自助者，拉克希米助之”。

据我所知，2015年《选举债券法案》通过之前的早上，并没有举行拉克希米祭祀仪式。

Rkm
to pay more taxes with ma Lakshmi blessings

在拉克希米女神的祝福下多缴税

Ayikousik
It is the middle class which requires God 's blessings. This govt robs the middle class to feed the poor for vote bank politics and the rich don't care. The farmers are pampered by the political class since decades, by spineless govts.

需要神灵祝福的是中产阶级。这个政府为了选票政治，从中间阶级身上搜刮财富去补贴穷人，而富人根本不在乎。几十年来，政治阶层和软弱的政府一直都在纵容印度农民。

vp
Too liitle too late. Thinking of middle class and poor when you started to feel the pinch of low GDP % is due to low consumption. So you didnt pray to Laxmi slash Nirmala for last 10 yrs for the welfare of middle class when they needed your favour very very badly. You and your "Laxmi" woke up now because your GDP is low. Shabbas!!! And now after 11 yrs you are showing this mercy when there are no jobs, no income and entire middle class is crushed under inflation, job losses and list of other issues.This is practical joke on middle class. And I bet whatever you and your Laxmi will do for middle class now in this budget, will be less than peanut.IT WILL BE ANOTHER CRUEL JOKE ON THEM. IT WONT GIVE THEM ANY REAL BENEFIT ON THE GROUND UNLESS YOU ABOLISH INCOME TAX WHICH SUBRYMANYAM SWAMI IS TELLING YOU SINCE LAST MANY MANY YEARS.
May god bless the middle and salaried class with new govt and down to earth leaders.Jai Shriram!!!

太迟了。当你开始感受到GDP增长率低是因为消费不足时，才想起中产阶级和穷人。

在过去10年里，当中产阶级极其需要你的帮助时，你都没向拉克希米为他们祈祷过。你和你的 “拉克希米” 现在醒悟了，是因为GDP太低了。真棒！

11年过去了，现在没有工作，没有收入，整个中产阶级被通货膨胀、失业和其他一系列问题压垮，你却在这个时候表现出怜悯。这对中产阶级来说就是个现实版的笑话。

我敢打赌，无论你和你的拉克希米这次为中产阶级做什么，都微不足道。这对他们来说会是又一个残酷的笑话。

除非你像苏布拉马尼亚姆·斯瓦米多年来一直呼吁的那样废除所得税，否则这不会给他们带来任何实际好处。

愿神灵保佑中产阶级和工薪阶层迎来新政府和脚踏实地的领导人。胜利属于罗摩神！！

Satish Huria
Fully agree with you. And remember his Laxmi doesn’t eat Onion and Garlic.

我完全同意你的看法。记住，他的拉克希米不吃洋葱和大蒜。

Indian
Mr. Feku, You are helpless with your own stupid policies which crushed the poor and middle class and now you pray like a hypocrite to show that it’s not your fault.. This is height of failure.

莫迪先生，你对自己那些搞垮穷人和中产阶级的愚蠢政策束手无策，现在却像个伪君子一样祈祷，想表明这不是你的错，简直失败透顶。

RUPAL RANDHAWA
I pray to all the Gods to immediately remove people from top posts, who are uneducated, regularly tell lies, mislead people, divide people and don't have any idea of how to run economics.

我祈求所有神灵立刻把那些没文化、经常说谎、误导民众、分裂人民且不懂经济运行的人从高位上拉下来。

shripad kulkarni
This is hypocrisy

这就是伪善

RUPAL RANDHAWA
I pray to all the Gods who are uneducated, regularly tell lies, divide people, spread hatred in the society, mislead people and don't have any idea of how to run economics.

我祈求所有没文化、经常说谎、分裂人民、在社会上传播仇恨、误导民众且不懂经济运行的神灵，保佑我们

Jagdish Madan
The middle class has always borne the brunt of successive governments' appeasement and freebie policies. It is high time this honest, tax - paying segment of the population gets its dues.

中产阶级一直首当其冲承受着历届政府的安抚政策和免费福利政策带来的压力。是时候让这个诚实纳税的群体得到他们应得的待遇了。

Ronnie Thomas
Narendra Modi ~ The greatest and most loved world leader over the last hundred years.

纳伦德拉·莫迪，过去一百年里最伟大、最受爱戴的世界领导人。

idealist
Yes. Only god can help middle class and poor in India. Modiji's false promises are not going to help them. His promise of a developed India by 2047 is a cruel joke on poor Indians. He knows very well that it is not going to happen and he is not going to be there to be held accountable.

没错。在印度，只有神灵才会帮助中产阶级和穷人。莫迪先生的虚假承诺帮不了他们。他承诺到2047年让印度成为发达国家，这对贫穷的印度人来说是个残酷的笑话。他心里很清楚这不会实现，而且到时候他也不用为此负责。

User
Dhongi baba....gujju communal thug....
bless Adani...for dhandha....n Kala dhan....

骗子大师，古吉拉特邦的暴徒

保佑阿达尼做生意做得风生水起，还有赚黑钱

Satish Huria
Mr. PM first you accept that demonetisation and GST didn’t helped the economy much. GST infact hv created anarchy and more corruption. So much of compliances. Return of inspector raaj. Even the essentials got expensive. AND out of this budget not expecting any good relief except few adjustment in taxable limit which mat benefit few but not at large.

总理先生，首先你得承认废钞令和商品及服务税（GST）对经济帮助不大。事实上，GST制造了混乱，滋生了更多腐败。合规要求太多了。检查人员又开始作威作福了。就连生活必需品都变贵了。而且从这次预算来看，除了对纳税限额做一些调整，可能会让少数人受益，但对大多数人没什么好处，别指望能有什么好的减免措施。

Trouble
Forget everything it is the rich who have become richer and that includes politically connected people

别管其他的了，富人们变得更富了，这其中包括那些与政治有联系的人。

Sushanth Kotian
Mahamahim Bhagwan speaking...

伟大的神灵在说话

Mu
As a middle - class Muslim businessman, I can say with certainty all educated, nationalist, patriotic, modern Indian Muslims are with Modiji. Bharat Mata ki Jai!

作为一名中产阶级的msl商人，我可以肯定地说，所有受过教育、有民族主义精神、爱国且现代的印度msl都支持莫迪先生。印度母亲万岁！

Parichay Gupta
Pradhan Sevak does not need to pray. Indian economy requires good budgetary plans, people - oriented policies, implement them and activate the regulatory agencies like SEBI etc.... Of course, the fundamental requirements are sound KNOWLEDGE of the economy and INTENT!

莫迪不需要祈祷。印度经济需要良好的预算计划、以人为本的政策，实施这些政策并激活像印度证券交易委员会（SEBI）等监管机构。当然，最基本的要求是对经济有扎实的了解和明确的意图！

Yoga N Mani
On 20 March 2024, four Journalists of Newsweek sat and read the following :
"For us, the aim of rapid economic growth is to ensure empowerment of the poor and their social mobility. You will be happy to know that the biggest beneficiaries of India’s rapid growth in the last 10 years have been India’s poor.
India has run the world’s largest poverty - eradication drive in the last 10 years and has pulled 250 million people out of poverty. Only four nations in the world have a population more than that. According to a recent research paper, India has eliminated extreme poverty.
As a result of the robust economic growth, we have been able to run unprecedented welfare schemes. These welfare schemes have ensured that the poor get 40 million houses, over 100 million clean fuel connections, around 110 million clean water connections, over 110 million toilets, 500 million people get free health care and the last remaining 18,000 villages get electricity."

2024年3月20日，《新闻周刊》的四名记者坐在一起阅读了以下内容：

“对我们来说，快速经济增长的目标是确保穷人获得权力并实现社会流动。你会很高兴知道，在过去10年里，印度快速增长的最大受益者是印度的穷人。

在过去10年里，印度开展了世界上规模最大的脱贫行动，2.5亿人摆脱了贫困。世界上只有四个国家的人口比这更多。根据最近的一篇研究论文，印度已经消除了极端贫困。

得益于强劲的经济增长，我们得以实施前所未有的福利计划。这些福利计划确保穷人得到4000万套住房、超过1亿用上了清洁燃料、清洁水、超过1.1亿个厕所，5亿人获得免费医保，最后18000个村庄通了电。”

Rajkripal
Official admission of the Ram Bharose nature of the Indian Economy!!

官方这是在承认印度经济是 “靠神保佑” 而发展起来的

Rajkripal
Praying to Lakshmi is not a good economic policy! Ram Bharose Economy cannot be strong and is not going to grow!

向拉克希米祈祷不是一个好的经济政策，“靠神保佑” 的经济不可能强大，也不会增长