Poll bonanza? Yogi govt likely to table Supplementary Budget of Rs 150 bn

UP assembly winter session starts tomorrow, Budget to be tabled on Wednesday

With the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha poll just a few months away, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will table its second Supplementary Budget of the current fiscal 2018-19 in the winter session of the state legislature beginning Tuesday. 

In the first Supplementary Budget tabled in August 2018, the state had sought additional funds worth Rs 348 billion for ongoing developmental projects. Together with the Annual Budget 2018-19 of Rs 4.28 trillion, the government has so far already received total funds totalling almost Rs 4.63 trillion.

Although, the size of the second Supplementary Budget is under wraps, since it is the