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Shashi Tharoor's poetic attack
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7 months ago
Watch how Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, on 24 March 2025, launched a poetic attack on the Finance Minister during his speech in Lok Sabha.
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Tax our petrol, tax our shirt, tax our footwear, tax our dirt.
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Tax our mobile, tax our calls, tax our Hubble's crumbling walls.
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On March 24, 2025, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor
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criticized the Modi government's taxation policy in poetic fashion.
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Since the finance minister has been kind enough to join us,
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let me capture the present situation in some light verse.
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Tax our petrol, tax our shirt, tax our footwear, tax our dirt.
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Tax our mobile, tax our calls, tax our Hubble's crumbling walls.
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Tax our salary, tax our ride, tax our matai on the side.
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Tax our sorrow, tax our cheer, tax our future year by year.
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GST income tax forms pile high, chesses surcharge us, make us sigh.
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Roads with potholes, trains that derail, where does it go, is it all a fail?
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When we ask, is this all in vain?
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You smile and say, it's for the nation's gain.
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And if we ask you to try and fix it, you point and say, you will be vixit.
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Yet still we pay with a patriotic heart, hoping our cash will play a small part
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in building a future bright and fair for the nation we love beyond compare.
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