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In this episode of Social List, Ashish Mishra talks about Budget. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday presented the Union Budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1. Health emerged as the topmost priority for the Narendra Modi government as the finance minister proposed more than doubling of healthcare spending while imposing a new Agri cess on certain imported goods and raising customs duty on items ranging from cotton to electronics in a bid to pull the economy out of the trough. Twitter on Monday blocked some 250 accounts tweeting, or retweeting, with the ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making "fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets", government sources said, adding that the request had come from the Home Ministry and law enforcement agencies. The request, sources said, was made with a view to preventing "escalation of law and order (situation) in view of the ongoing farmer agitation". Roads cemented with a bed of nails, concrete walls erected between barriers, multi-layer barricading, and lines upon lines of police personnel -- these are scenes reported from conflict zones, not the outskirts of the national capital of India. The Delhi Police on Monday turned the three major farmers' protest sites -- Singhu, Tikri, and Ghazipur into fortresses with multi-layer barricades and heavy security deployment.