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The Telangana Budget has betrayed nationalist aspirations and is driven purely by “vote-bank politics”, said BJP State president N. Ramchander Rao connected Friday, claiming it was acold removed from the “needs of the mediocre and lacked a wide vision” for the State’s future.
Addressing a property league astatine the BJP State office, Mr. Rao described the Budget presented by Finance Minister Bhatti Vikramarka arsenic recycled and directionless. “It appears the Finance Minister was simply rereading past year’s Budget. There is thing caller oregon innovative. This is simply a failed, mendacious and fancy Budget designed lone for optics,” helium charged.
Nearly two-and-a-half years into its tenure, the Congress authorities had failed to spell retired the existent interaction of its policies connected the ground, helium said, alleging that cardinal sectors continued to beryllium neglected, peculiarly education. The assemblage received lone a ₹1,000-crore summation and accounted for astir 8.6% of the full Budget allocation, helium pointed out.
“When Andhra Pradesh allocates astir 13% and Bihar astir 25% to education, Telangana’s misplaced priorities basal exposed,” Mr. Rao said. Targeting Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, the BJP person said repeated announcements of allocating ₹1,000 crore to Osmania University remained hollow promises without disposable follow-up. He dismissed the government’s speech of integrated schools and colleges arsenic bare rhetoric, alleging that nary superior effort was evident to fortify the acquisition system.
On healthcare, Mr. Rao said the Aarogyasri strategy itself was successful mediocre condition, with pending dues and deficiency of clarity. “Placing pensions and different payment schemes nether a struggling healthcare programme volition lone deepen the crisis,” helium warned.
He accused the authorities of deliberately refusing to admit that the projected Regional Ring Road and Regional Ring Rail projects were initiatives of the Centre. About the caller agrarian employment strategy VBGRAMG causing a loss, Mr. Rao alleged monolithic fraud nether the earlier MGNREGA programme. Bogus beneficiaries, non-existent works and fake claims moving into crores of rupees had resulted successful dense losses, helium claimed.
On husbandman welfare, Mr. Rao said the authorities should person released 5 instalments by now. Criticising the Musi River rejuvenation project, helium said it evoked memories of Emergency-era demolitions. While stating that nary 1 opposed improvement oregon beautification, helium questioned the deficiency of readying and transparency. The task outgo had already escalated to ₹7,000 crore, helium said, referring to objections raised by Tushar Gandhi.
Mr. Rao besides alleged that irrigation projects were babelike solely connected Central assistance and said the Budget had failed to fulfil adjacent 1 of the six guarantees promised by the Congress government.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar termed the Budget “empty boasts” and “fancy allocations,” alleging that the authorities was preparing to enforce an further indebtedness load of ₹1 lakh crore. He said the Budget had ignored tenant farmers, cultivation labourers, women, students and the unemployed, adding that it sounded the decease knell for the Congress party’s “Six Guarantees”.
