TDP budget bogus

Hyderabad, March 11: Terming as bogus, the 2016-17 State Budget which is on the lines of Vijaya Mallya’s line of deceptive declarations, YSR Congress has said that Chief Minister and Finance Minister have deceived the people with unrealistic figures and leaving aside all the welfare schemes and the best practices of transparency.  

‘It is a very deceptive method that the State has adopted by not giving the revised audited estimates of the previous two budgets (2014-15 and 2015-16) but had just given a list of figures against the set norms like what Vijaya Mallya had done to the banks before fleeing the country,’ party MLA Kakani Govardhan Reddy told reporters here on Capital and Revenue Receipts did not change from the previous two years and was shown as the same which raises many doubts and as the revised estimates of 2014-15 and the eleven month period of 2015-16 were not placed and were shown as same or were hidden. This makes the budget faulty and deceptive, he said adding that Chandrababu Naidu owes an apology to the people on this count. 

Though this is the third budget after coming to power the promises made in the manifesto were not taken into account and no mention was found in thebudget. The loan waiver of farmers, DWACRA women finds no mention and there is no clarity on how the farm loans which swelled from 87, 612 crores 

There were many other promises like old age homes, Anna Canteens, nine hour power supply to agriculture during day time, setting up of Market Stabilisation Fund with Rs 5,000 crores, assuring MSP, allocation of funds to BCs, setting up of agro-based industries, regularization of jobs, tablets to students, 20 litres of water, free education from KG to PG, but none of these promises reflected in the budget allocation.

As the Kapus were on the warpath, the government has allocation Rs 1,000 crores instead of Rs 3,000 crores for the three years. Many other assurances like bullet trains, land to tribals did not find any place in the budget, he added.