Shashi Tharoor's poetic attack

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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00:00Tax our petrol, tax our shirt, tax our footwear, tax our dirt.

00:05Tax our mobile, tax our calls, tax our Hubble's crumbling walls.

00:09On March 24, 2025, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor

00:12criticized the Modi government's taxation policy in poetic fashion.

00:16Since the finance minister has been kind enough to join us,

00:18let me capture the present situation in some light verse.

00:23Tax our petrol, tax our shirt, tax our footwear, tax our dirt.

00:28Tax our mobile, tax our calls, tax our Hubble's crumbling walls.

00:32Tax our salary, tax our ride, tax our matai on the side.

00:37Tax our sorrow, tax our cheer, tax our future year by year.

00:42GST income tax forms pile high, chesses surcharge us, make us sigh.

00:48Roads with potholes, trains that derail, where does it go, is it all a fail?

00:54When we ask, is this all in vain?

00:56You smile and say, it's for the nation's gain.

01:00And if we ask you to try and fix it, you point and say, you will be vixit.

01:06Yet still we pay with a patriotic heart, hoping our cash will play a small part

01:12in building a future bright and fair for the nation we love beyond compare.

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