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          Now, I want to share with you, for a minute the story of what I call a reluctant Finance Minister. This job that you hold today is keenly sought, and I am very glad that you are back in this job after a long gap. Mr. Finance Minister, Sir, you and I, we have worked together in Parliament for three scores and three years. It is a very long period and we have shared many experiences and many ups and downs. But, I must tell you with candour and honesty that I had been assigned a job to perform in South Block. One day, hon. Shri L.K. Advani called me on the telephone because Prime Minister Vajpayee always assigned such tasks to Shri Advani ji. He called Advaniji and said, tell Jaswant Singh to move from South Block to North Block –आडवाणी जी ने हम को टेलीफोन किया और कहा कि     'जसवंत सिंह जी आपको नॉर्थ ब्लॉक जाना है।  ' जैसे राजस्थान की हमारी पद्धति है, हमने कहा   'हुक्म ' । आठ दिन बीत गए, दस दिन बीत गए। मेरे दोस्त मुझे टेलीफोन कर-कर के कहें। कुछ दोस्तों ने विलायत से भी टेलीफोन किया।   "Jaswant, where are you going? You do not even know the vocabulary of Finance."" I admit, I do not know. करीब 12 दिन जब बीत गए, तो आडवाणी जी ने फिर कहा कि  'भई, आप गए नहीं!' फिर लोगों ने कहा  that it is a very bad policy to keep arguing with the Prime Minister and Dy. Prime Minister for more than 10-12 days. Then, I chose discretion to be the better part of my resistance and I walked across from South to North Block. As is usual, there was a posse of Press that had collected at the entrance of North Block and immediately they asked me : “What is your policy?” On the spur of the moment, Mr. Finance Minister, because it was and is central to my concerns and conviction, I shared with them just two sentences. "  गृहिणी की टुकिया में आना, गरीब के पेट में दाना। " That became and remained the central focus of my approach as a Finance Minister. I think centrally, this continues to be your approach. This continues to be the approach, it has to be the approach. If I were to elaborate ' टुकिया में आना, ' begging the pardon of the Leader of Opposition, women have a tactile sense of money. Therefore, they keep money in their टुकिया. I hope you get the sense of what I am trying to say. You must provide more spending power to the household, to the housewife and to the citizens. Spending power is a derivative of income exceeding expenditure, income not being eaten away by inflation, sufficient income so as to enable citizens to have the luxury of spending money. You cannot imagine – I am sure you can – what great freedom is felt when a citizen is able to put his hand in his pocket, or in the purse if she is a housewife, and to be able to actually spend money. यह बहुत बड़ी चीज़ होती है। It is not easy to achieve. I do not minimise your difficulty.