New Delhi, Delhi, India

Eyeing rural populace, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to deliver his Budget speech in Hindi on Thursday.

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If reports are to be believed, the main idea behind it is to establish a direct connect with the rural people. 

This will be the last full Budget of the Narendra Modi government and agriculture is going to be the major focus area in the annual exercise. 

By delivered in Hindi, Jaitley will not only become the first Union FM to do so since Independence, but this will also help in establishing the fact that the Budget is going to be an aam budget for aam aadmi. 

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The populist way of deciding to speak in Hindi is likely to strike a chord with the voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2019.

In the Budget 2018, the Modi government is likely to give impetus to farm sector by providing bigger allocation for food subsidy to widen MSP-based intervention.

Schemes to pay difference between MSP and market price to farmers, nationwide loan waiver for farmers and bigger allocation for farm sector to improve infrastructure, will be other decisions in the Budget.