Uttar Pradesh government to present supplementary budget of Rs 30,000 crore in Assembly

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 30 (ANI): The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party government will present a supplementary budget in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly of about Rs 30,000 crore on Tuesday.

On the second day of the monsoon session of the UP Vidhan Sabha, a discussion will be held on various bills presented in the House and a supplementary budget will be presented.

A supplementary budget of about 30 thousand crores would get the approval of the cabinet. Funds will be arranged for Kumbh Mela, the purchase of buses, industrial projects, the construction of new bridges, and other purposes.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday introduced the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion (Amendment) Bill in the Assembly, under which there will be life imprisonment for ‘love jihad’ in UP.

The bill has proposed to double the punishments for certain crimes listed under it.

Samajwadi Party leader Fakhrul Hasan Chand slammed the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over bringing amendments to existing law regarding ‘Love Jihad’ and said that the BJP only wants to do negative politics.

In a self-made video, Chand said, “The BJP government, which has brought the ordinance on Love Jihad, already has a law on it. If someone traps someone in his/her love trap with some motive, then there is a law for it but the BJP only wants to do negative politics. It does not want to do anything about unemployment and paper leaks.”

Earlier on Monday, the UP CM introduced four new Ministers of his cabinet – OP Rajbhar, Anil Kumar, Dara Singh Chauhan, and Sunil Sharma – to the House as the Assembly session commenced.

“These four cabinet ministers were part of this Assembly. I introduce them as part of the Cabinet in this House,” Adityanath said while speaking at the Assembly.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana welcomed Samajwadi Party leader Mata Prasad Pandey, who has been appointed as the Leader of Opposition in the House.