BRS terms budget highly disappointing with no cheer to any section or sector

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has remarked that the budget for 2026-27 presented to the Assembly by Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister M. Bhatti Vikramarka has disappointed people highly as no sector or section got allocations even in the vicinity of requirements.

“The Congress Government has buried its Six Guarantees forever without making proper allocation to any of its components”, Deputy Floor Leader of the BRS in the Assembly, and former minister for finance, T. Harish Rao, said while reacting to the budget on Friday. The budget had neither vision nor commitment towards the ruling party’s serpentine list of pre-poll promises.

He alleged that the government backstabbed all the sections who voted for the Congress as there was no attempt, whatsoever, in the budget to keep the promises made to garner votes. The budget has proved that the Congress party’s ‘abhaya hastham’ (the hand of bountiful sops) has become ‘rikta hastham’ (empty hand).

Even the schemes named after the ruling party’s stalwart leaders Indiramma and Rajiv did not get proper allocations. Indiramma Aatmeeya Bharosa was made allocations in 2024-25 and 2025-26, but nothing was spent. Similarly, about ₹6,000 crore was allocated to Rajiv Yuva Vikasam for 2025-26 but nothing was spent out of it. There was nothing to boast about the SC, ST and Minorities Declarations, Mr. Harish said.

Terming the budget only a jugglery of numbers, the BRS leader said that the Congress Government made ₹3.5 lakh crore fresh debt in little over two years without implementing any major scheme/project. He stated that the increase in Debt GSDP ratio from 27% during the BRS rule to 29% now was an indication of the government’s borrowing spree.

Stating that there was contradiction in the claims of the Deputy Chief Minister and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on the State’s finances/economy, Mr. Harish said Mr. Bhatti was claiming that Telangana’s growth rate was better than that of the country’s average, while Mr. Revanth Reddy has been repeatedly claiming that the State’s economy had gone bankrupt.