<h1>Budget arithmetic frames a political jab over free laptop allocation, prompting opposition rebuttal and alliance debate.</h1> The Finance Minister defended the Budget allocation for free college laptops and rebuked opposition criticism as careless 'arithmetic' regarding the scheme's figures, asserting the government would allocate funds in the initial phase and provide qualitatively good gadgets; the remark used a political analogy about rival calculations and prompted an opposition denial of flawed accounting and an affirmation of its ideological strength.