Karnataka Congress leader puts flowers in ear while presenting budget

Bengaluru:

In a peculiar protest against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka, Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah and other Congress leaders in the state assembly held flowers over their ears, alleging that the BJP government has cheated the people and fooled them by not fulfilling past promises. has made. Budget and Manifesto 2018.

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who also holds the finance portfolio, is today presenting his government’s second and last budget ahead of the upcoming state elections in May this year.

The Karnataka Congress calls it #KiviMeleHoova, which means ‘flower on the ear’, symbolically indicating that one has been fooled.

Siddaramaiah has repeatedly attacked Mr. Bommai’s government, claiming that the ruling party had made 600 promises in its election manifesto, but barely 10 per cent of them were fulfilled.

The chief minister has said that the government will present an “action taken report” during the budget regarding the fulfillment of promises made by the ruling BJP ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.

The budget is expected to ‘please all’ with focus on vulnerable sections of the society in an attempt to consolidate BJP’s vote bank as the party faces anti-incumbency wave.

Asserting that it would be a “pro-people” budget, Mr. Bommai had repeatedly stressed in the recent past that it would focus on programs that benefit the poor, weaker sections, farmers, working classes, women and youth. Will give more support.

Bommai said it is a ‘revenue-surplus’ budget for 2023-24.

Bommai had said last week, “This month, there has been a record collection of Rs 6,085 crore under GST. Karnataka continues to be the state with the highest growth rate of 30 per cent in GST tax collection.”