Harish presented the budget empty promises and hollow rhetoric: Harishankar 

Hyderabad, Feb 6:: Bharatiya Janata Party Telangana State senior leader from Alair Constituency Sudagani Harishankar Goud  on Monday Slammed the state annual budge for 2023-24 presented by T'gana finance minister T Harish Rao as election-Sensual  with empty promises and hollow rhetoric.
In a Media statement, Sudagani Harishankar Goud said the finance minister had confined himself to self-boasting and centre-bashing. It ignored all  sections of the society, including SCs, STs, BCs and EBCs OBCs. “It was a huge disappointment for the people who were expecting that the K Chandrasekhar Rao government would implement his pre-election promises at least during the election year,” he said.
Stating that there is absolutely no match between what is allocated in the budget and what is spent, the BJP leader said in the outgoing budget, not even 50 per cent of the allocations were spent. “Now, the finance minister presents a huge outlay in the today's present budget only to hoodwink the people,” he said.
He pointed out that if the government had to waive of crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh, it should allocate Rs 19,700 crore; but it made an allocation of only Rs 6,285 crore. With regard to the much-hyped Dalit Bandhu, the government had not spent much on the scheme last year, though it had allocated Rs 17,700 crore.
“This budget year, also, the government made a similar allocation. If the scheme has to be implemented benefitting all Dalits in the state, it would not be possible even in another 100 years. This is looking like cheating the entire Dalit community,” he said.
Similarly, the allocations made for STs and OBCs were too meagre, compared to their population. So was the case with the allocations to education and health sector, which would result in heavy weight burden on the common man, he said.
Sudagani said the allocations made for irrigation and power sectors were not sufficient even to repay the borrowings and salaries of the employees. “For instance, the government allocated Rs 12,000 crore to power sector, which is not sufficient to clear the pending dues of the government departments to the distribution companies, which are facing heavy losses to the extent of Rs 60,000 crore,” he said.
Finding fault with the state government for criticising the Centre for not releasing funds to the state, the he said many of the schemes mentioned in the budget document were central-funding. 
He termed it as fake the promise made by the finance minister about regularisation of contract employees.
“While the budget outlay was projected at Rs 2.90 lakh crore, the government had projected the revenue receipts as only Rs 1.31 lakh crore. It is shameful  part of the government not to show how it wants to mobilise Rs 1.60 lakh crore. In fact, the Central government itself will be paying Rs 62,000 crore through tax devolutions and grants. And it appears the state governments wants to mobilise the remaining money through sale of government lands and extra borrowings,” Sudagani criticised.