Govt asks you to tweet budget queries to #AskYourFM

Govt asks you to tweet budget queries to #AskYourFM

A lot of questions behind the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1 were raised yesterday on Twitter with the hashtag #AskYourFM.

The hashtag started by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was trending on Twitter on Thursday morning as twitteratis took to the micro-blogging website to tweet clarifications regarding this year’s budget.

Some of the questions were as follows.

On Wednesday evening, Chetan Bhagat, Indian author, hosted a ‘Talkathon’ with FM Jaitley that was supposed to raise questions of the twitteratis.

Bhagat began the Talkathon with the question, “Ever made a home budget? Now try to spend (and earn) Rs 20 lakh crore.”

The hashtag was even used in last year’s budget for solving queries by the Finance Ministry of India.

Written By: ZeeBiz WebTeam
Updated: Thu, Feb 02, 2017
10:42 AM IST
Mumbai, ZeeBiz WebDesk
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