"It was an inspirational speech, it narrated government's actions...about how we are developing the rural section, giving justice to the poor, the downtrodden, scheduled caste, scheduled tribes, farmers, labourers and all those who were neglected," he told reporters on the Parliament premises.Javadekar noted the President also mentioned Centre's moves of demonetisation and surgical strike. "They advanced the budget in view of elections. The President is helpless that he has to read out the speech written by the government. But am very sure, he must be laughing inside his mind. It is his helplessness that he had to read it out," she added.

Source: Economic Times January 31, 2017 15:02 UTC