Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the Union government had written to the Election Commission (EC) on March 28 seeking permission to hold a meeting of the high-level committee to clear several proposals for disaster relief, including drought relief for Karnataka.
Conceding that this could be construed as a “delay”, she claimed it was not intentional and the “processes had taken time”.
“The government will clear disaster relief once the meeting is held,” she said, speaking at a press conference organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party here on Saturday.
