UP Budget may hit Rs 4.25-trn mark as Yogi, BJP prepare for 2019 LS polls

During election years, the UP Budget has posted steep hikes of over 15% and occasionally breached the 18% mark

To be presented by the Yogi Adityanath government next month, Uttar Pradesh's (UP's) annual Budget 2018-19 is likely to hit the Rs 4.25-trillion mark and give the state's infrastructure sector a boost.  

This would be a hike of less than 11 per cent over the previous annual Budget, which stood at Rs 3.84 trillion. The government will table the next financial year's budgetary proposals in the UP legislature during the Budget session commencing February 8.

Since the Budget will be presented in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, it is expected to be populist with liberal finances for the