Budget 2024: Not a word of ‘Telangana’, says Irrigation Minister Uttam Kumar Reddy
The HinduTelangana Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has criticised Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for ignoring Telangana in the Union Budget 2024 presented on Tuesday. For the first time since 2014, a separate chapter titled ‘Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act’ was incorporated in the budget speech, but the Finance Minister did not mention the word ‘Telangana’ in her entire speech of 58 pages and 14,692 words,” he said. Budget 2024 LIVE Updates Telangana ministers submitted various applications in the last seven months seeking funds The Minister condemned Ms. Sitharaman for completely skipping the mention of Telangana when she spoke about the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act in her budget speech. “While we welcome the Finance Minister’s announcement that commitments made in the AP Reorganisation Act will be fulfilled, we expect that commitments made with both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are fulfilled,” he said.