The YSRC said that the budget allocations were not sufficient to ensure welfare to any section of community in the society.
Rajahmundry: Though the state government claims credit for enhanced budget allocation by 20.13 per cent to various heads in the present budget when compared with last budget, the Opposition YSR Congress says that the budget is impractical and allocations were inadequate with regard to the needs of the people.
The YSRC said that the budget allocations were not sufficient to ensure welfare to any section of community in the society. The YSRC leaders say that when the BC population is about 53 per cent in state population, the TD government allocated only Rs 8,800 crores for their welfare and said that the allocations were inadequate.
With regard to allocation to Kapu community also, the party leaders said that the allocation was very meagre. They said that as TD government wanted to ensure welfare of Kapu community, it would have allotted more funds instead of a mere Rs 1,000 crores.
Referring to the mention in the budget that the AP government inherited deficit budget during the bifurcation of the state, the YSRC leaders say that even after presentation of three budgets, the state government was still trying to shift the blame on someone else and wondered what it could do in the next pending two budgets before going for polls in 2019.
YSRC MLA and deputy floor leader in Assembly Jyothula Nehru said, “Given the quantum of allocations to welfare of various sections of the people, it is clear that the TD government is having no commitment to ensure their welfare.
For instance, the allocations to BCs and Kapus were very less. The minister for finance Yanamala Ramakrishnudu took pains to read out the budget for a long time with no utility to the commoners.”
