A lot of questions behind the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1 were raised yesterday on Twitter with the hashtag #AskYourFM.

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The hashtag started by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was trending on Twitter on Thursday morning as twitteratis took to the micro-blogging website to tweet clarifications regarding this year’s budget.

Some of the questions were as follows.

On Wednesday evening, Chetan Bhagat, Indian author, hosted a ‘Talkathon’ with FM Jaitley that was supposed to raise questions of the twitteratis.

Bhagat began the Talkathon with the question, “Ever made a home budget? Now try to spend (and earn) Rs 20 lakh crore.”

The hashtag was even used in last year’s budget for solving queries by the Finance Ministry of India.