Here’s how Indian CEOs and business leaders reacted to this year’s Union Budget speech

Feb 2, 2022

By: Marcia Sekhose

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Union Budget 2022

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget speech on Feb 1. Here’s what Indian CEOs and leaders had to say about this budget.

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited, talked about the middle class in her reaction to this year’s budget.

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Ritesh Agarwal

Founder and Group CEO of Oyo Rooms, Ritesh Agarwal was all praises about this year’s budget.

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Anand Mahindra

Anand Mahindra in his tweet talked about how Sitharaman’s shortest budget speech may be the “most impactful”.

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Karan Adani

Karan Adani, CEO- Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd., said quite a bit about the budget in his tweets.

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Kavin Bharti Mittal

Kavin Bharti Mittal, founder and CEO of Hike, said that this year’s budget was a great step forward for crypto.

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Nischal Shetty

Nischal Shetty, founder and CEO of WazirX had the same positive reaction to the budget speech on crypto.

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Nithin Kamath

Founder and CEO of Zerodha, Nithin Kamath analysed what’s next for crypto in India.

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma

More positive reactions for the digital rupee including one from Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma.

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Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak was also all praises for this year’s budget highlighting India’s digitally inclusive future.

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Kunal Bahl

Kunal Bahl, CEO and co-founder of Snapdeal also highlighted India’s digital revolution in his reaction to the budget speech.

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