‘Chiranjeevi’ Bhava!

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday presented the 5th Budget of this tenure and showered showered a lot of public welfare schemes apparently aiming at the electoral benefits. The theme of the budget was Bachat, Raahat, Badhat.

CM Ashok Gehlot gave the longest budget speech for 3.20 hours on Friday. He started the speech at around 12.26 pm and ended it at 3.46 pm. Last year also, he gave a speech for more than 1.5 hours.

Highlighting the key budget announcements, the CM Ashok Gehlot said that the amount under Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme has been increased from `10 lakh to `25 lakh per annum per family. He said “there is no other State in the country that has schemes like Rajasthan”.

This morning the BJP did not want the budget to be presented and did not want the poor to be given food packets in ration because inflation is a gift of the BJP. They did not want that poor people should be given gas cylinders for Rs 500 or Chiranjeevi insurance should be made for Rs25 lakh. — Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister