31/01/2023 09:59 PM | Click to read full article
Opposition parties criticised the President's address alleging that the speech was like the "first chapter" of the ruling BJP's manifesto for 2024 and that key issues related to price control, communal harmony and women were "missing". In her maiden address to the joint sitting of Parliament on the first day of the Budget session, President Droupadi Murmu spoke of the government's relentless fight against corruption, the "biggest enemy of democracy and social justice".