NEW DELHI: It took one and a half hours for Piyush Goyal to present his first budget which was a mix of Hindi and English.

Goyal took gaps only to drink water-four times. Other than that he delivered the entire budget without sitting. While the interim budget was welcomed with negative comments and ridicule by the opposition, treasury bench welcomed the income tax announcements with claps. Achievements of the government were detailed in the one and half hour long presentation. This was replied with sarcastic comments and mockery from the opposition. The presentation was ended with a quote from a Marathi poem which means ‘for every step, a thousand doors will open’.