New budget plan will be supplementary, not full-fledged: Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru: Queering the pitch on the plans of JD(S)- Congress coalition government’s Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who is additionally holding the finance portfolio, to display the new government’s financial plan one month from now, the former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is likewise the chairman of the coordination committee of the two parties, said the “upcoming budget won’t be a full-fledged one but just a supplementary budget plan.” 

Siddaramaiah, who addressed correspondents in Bengaluru on Saturday, said the thirteenth state budget plan introduced by the active government on February 16 was a full-fledged budget plan and that the past government just looked for a vote on account of three months in view of the assembly election. 

The JD(S)- Congress coordination committee chairman said his party was a major accomplice in the present government and as the coalition government would proceed with the projects of the past Congress government too, which were specified in his last budget plan for 2018-19, Kumraswamy could include new plans in the supplementary budget plan. 

Arrangement of free buses for students and free education for women were a portion of the proposition specified in the State budget plan of the Congress, he said. 

The Kumaraswamy Cabinet would be extended after arrangement of chiefs to different government-owned boards and corporation. 

Gotten some information about the waiving off farmer loan, he said the issue would be talked about first in the co-ordination committee meeting.