The opposition Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have criticised the Congress Government in Telangana for introducing a “hollow budget” in the assembly with no clarity on how the ruling party is planning to raise resources for fulfilling its spree of promises made to people in the run up to the State Assembly Elections-2023.
BRS MLA Kadiyam Srihari and BJP’s A. Maheshwar Reddy wondered as to how the Government inflated the budget estimates without clarifying on the sources for revenue mobilisation. The Government’s intentions, they alleged, appeared to be delaying the implementation of its promises and six guarantees in the name of working out modalities and finalising guidelines for their implementation.
Participating in the debate on the vote-on-account budget in the assembly on Wednesday, Mr. Srihari wondered as to how the outlay for 2024-25 was pegged at Rs. 2.75 lakh crore when the revised estimates of the current fiscal put the outlay at Rs. 2.24 lakh crore. “How is the Government planning to raise the additional Rs. 50,000 crore? Is it planning to tax the people? There is no clarity on the sources of revenue,” he said.
