Poll bugle: Yogi Adityanath allocates 65% budget for rural, energy sectors

Supplementary budget proposes Rs 221 billion for crop loan waiver, cheaper power to rural consumers etc

Uttar Pradesh government has allocated 2/3rd or almost 65% of the supplementary budget to the rural, agricultural and energy sectors to keep the electorate, especially in rural areas, in good humour in run up to the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would seek reelection amid talks of a united opposition in fray.

Of the total Rs 348 billion worth of supplementary budgetary grants tabled in the UP legislature yesterday, the rural and energy sector departments have been given total funds to the tune of over Rs 221 billion.

In the supplementary budget proposals, populist schemes of