1. With the budget session of the Karnataka Assembly set to start on July 3, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is busy with preparatory meetings. Financial management will be particularly crucial in this budget, with the government having to fund for its five ‘guarantees’.
2. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is meeting a delegation from Peenya Industrial Area in Bengaluru this evening. Industrialists have been demanding cut in power tariff.
3. Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar is in Delhi to discuss both Congress strategy for elections in Telangana later this year, and also Karnataka’s irrigation related issues with the Union Ministers concerned.