<h1>Budget framing as economic justice: NDA ally endorses it and forecasts expanded parliamentary strength in next general election.</h1> Ramdas Athawale endorsed the 2025-26 Budget as imparting economic and social justice, calling it a 'very strong, active budget' with sizeable allocations for ministries and declaring his support during the Rajya Sabha discussion. He forecast increased parliamentary strength for the ruling alliance in the next general election. Athawale noted his ministerial appointment despite his party having no elected MPs and reported construction of a memorial to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at Indu Mill in Mumbai, including a 350-foot statue.