40% Commission Budget, KTR Slams Revanth Reddy Govt

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao has slammed the Telangana budget for 2025-26, terming it a ‘40 per cent commission budget’.

He called the budget a complete betrayal of Telangana’s people who are left with "zero gains". He described it as a mirror reflecting Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s inefficiency, incompetence and administrative failure. Rama Rao criticised the Congress for puncturing the wheel of progress built over a decade under the BRS rule, alleging that their sole focus is sending "bags of money" to Delhi rather than fulfilling promises made to Telangana. He labelled it a "40 per cent commission budget" that prioritises political greed over people’s welfare. KTR pointed out that the much-hyped six guarantees promised within 100 days, have been reduced to nothing. After Deputy CM Bhatti Vikramarka’s hour-and-a-half speech, it became clear that these guarantees are a hollow chant of "Govinda Govinda".

The Congress, he said, buried its own affidavit -- once equated to the Bhagavad Gita -- after winning votes with false promises. Telangana’s poor, women, farmers, and elderly awaited the budget with hope, but promises like Rs2,500 monthly for women under Mahalakshmi, Rs 4,000 pensions for the elderly, and "tula of gold" remain unmentioned, leaving these groups shocked and disappointed.

He also criticised the financial mismanagement. While the BRS government borrowed Rs 4.17 lakh crore over 10 years, Congress amassed Rs1.6 lakh crore in just one year, with no new projects or schemes to justify it.