KTR demands funds for poll promises made in budget

HYDERABAD

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao urged the State government to ensure the allocation of adequate funds in the budget for the financial year 2026-27 for all schemes promised under the Congress party’s six guarantees, 420 assurances and other declarations made during the 2023 Assembly elections.

In an open letter to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Thursday, ahead of the State government’s preparation for the budget presentation in the Assembly, Mr. Rao alleged that the Congress government had failed to deliver on nearly 95 percent of its election promises despite being in power for almost half its term.

Claiming that people are losing patience over the government’s failure, Mr. Rama Rao warned that the State government would face public backlash if it failed to provide proper allocations, at least in the coming budget.

KTR said that although the Congress had come to power projecting six guarantees as transformative welfare assurances, not a single major promise had seen full implementation in two years.

Accusing the government of misleading the public with political distractions, he alleged that both the manifesto and guarantee cards distributed by the Congress before the elections had now become ‘outstanding dues cards’ (Baki cards), as no beneficiary groups had received the promised benefits.

KTR demanded significant budgetary allocations for women, farmers, students, youth, auto drivers, and vulnerable communities.

The former minister accused the Congress government of betraying farmers by failing to provide the promised input subsidy by enhancing it to ₹15,000 per acre annually and by repeatedly delaying Rythu Bandhu payments, which, he said, remained pending even after assurances made during recent municipal elections.

He also criticised the lack of progress on the Congress’s promises to unemployed youth, including filling two lakh government vacancies, issuing a job calendar, and providing a monthly unemployment allowance of ₹4,000.