Amid the Covid pandemic and its year-long fallout, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa is set to present the state Budget for ensuing fiscal year 2021-22 in the Assembly on Monday, an official said on Sunday. Yediyurappa will present the Budget for 2021-22 on Monday afternoon as he also holds the finance portfolio. It will be the 8th time he presents the Budget and third during his present term as chief minister since July 2019, a state finance department official told IANS. Since Yediyurappa took over the reins of the southern state as Chief Minister for the fourth time on July 26, 2019, he tabled in the House the state Budget then JD-S chief minister H.D Kumaraswamy presented on February 8, 2019 for fiscal 2019-20 and got it passed by voice-vote on July 29, 2019 to ensure continuity.
Sustained efforts by the Uttar Pradesh government in the four years have pushed the power sector in the state towards self-reliance with a quantum jump in the transmission capacity, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said here on Saturday. Underlining that the self-reliance in the power sector is necessary for an atmanirbhar UP, Adityanath said his government had inherited a power infrastructure that was in a shambles. But during the past four years, the transmission capacity alone has seen an augmentation of 53 per cent. The state has moved towards self-reliance in the power sector even as the load capacity in transmission reached to 25000 MW, the CM said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a padayatra here on Sunday to protest against the steep hike in fuel prices, including LPG cylinders. Banerjee, following her arrival here from Kolkata on Saturday, told reporters that thousands of people, especially women, will assemble at Darjeeling More at 1 pm to join the protest march. Claiming that LPG cylinders would soon be beyond the reach of common man, the CM said, We need to organise massive demonstrations to make our voices heard. Many of those taking part in the rally will carry empty LPG cylinders to mark the protest, she said.
The DMK on Saturday moved forward in its ongoing seat-sharing exercise with allies by giving six seats to MDMK though a deal with the Congress and CPI(M) was elusive, while the ruling AIADMK s negotiations with DMDK remained inconclusive. The MDMK would, however, contest on the rising sun symbol of its partner DMK according to the pact inked today by the leadership of both parties. This is the first time the MDMK would face the Tamil Nadu Assembly election together with the DMK since it was founded in 1994 after Vaiko was ousted from the then M Karunanidhi-led DMK. Vaiko, when asked if his party has given a list of preferred constituencies to DMK, said no.
Stinging West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for running away from her Bhowanipore seat in Kolkata, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday asserted he is 200 per cent sure of handsomely defeating the TMC supremo, who is an outsider in Nandigram seat. The BJP named Adhikari, a former minister in Banerjee s cabinet, as its candidate in the Nandigram seat in Purba Medinipur district, from where the chief minister will also contest the assembly elections. Why have you deserted your Bhowanipore constituency? Why have you run away? Is it because the BJP had won in the booth at Mitra Institution in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections? You cannot even win in your own locality, Adhikary said at a rally in Behala area of Kolkata.