BJP leaders criticise Siddaramaiah’s Budget for reducing focus on development

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BJP leaders person criticised the State Budget for what they called reduced absorption connected improvement and reliance connected guarantees.

Member of Legislative Assembly Abhay Patil said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Budget has near the State burdened with lakhs of crores of debts and is afloat of thousands of mendacious promises.

“Without immoderate wide absorption for the improvement of the State, this Budget disappoints the hopes and aspirations of the communal people,” helium said.

Member of Legislative Assembly Balachandra Jarkiholi said that the Budget seems to person been designed successful the process of adjusting funds for the Congress’ warrant schemes. They person burdened Kannadigas with further debts.

“It is wide that the State authorities is suffering from a shortage of funds successful the Treasury. Thus, this is simply a Budget with zero development, nary progress, nary direction,” helium said.

“It seems that the absorption is much connected improvement of Bengaluru and Mysuru. Injustice has been done to North Karnataka by not releasing much funds to tourism improvement and irrigation development. The Chief Minister has not announced immoderate caller schemes for North Karnataka. No peculiar packages person been fixed for farmers successful the Budget. They person wholly ignored sugarcane growers. There is nary notation of the promises made successful the earlier Budgets,” helium said.

The erstwhile MLC Mahantesh Kavatagimath said that it seemed the Chief Minister has fixed much precedence to ballot slope authorities than the wide improvement of the State. Of the full outlay of ₹4.48 lakh crore, implicit ₹51,600 crore is acceptable speech for guarantees.

While payment schemes are necessary, it is disappointing that determination is nary wide absorption for large-scale occupation creation, concern investment, semipermanent schemes to summation farmers income and infrastructure development, helium said.

He besides criticised it arsenic a minorities-oriented Budget with Maulana Azad schools for number communities getting ₹600 crore, the upgrading of Urdu schools worthy astir ₹400 crore and the proviso of 75% subsidy (up to ₹3 lakh) to number younker to commencement business.

There is nary peculiar concern improvement bundle for North Karnataka districts nor grants for irrigation projects, helium said.

Published - March 08, 2026 06:44 p.m. IST

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