Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy arrives to meet Congress President Rahul Gandhi. The two leaders are meeting to discuss the issue of tabling a new full-fledged budget for 2018-19. The decision comes in the wake of a difference in opinions of the Congress and JD-S in the matter.


While the Congress said there was no need for a fresh budget and insisted that a supplementary budget would do, the JD-S asserted that a fresh one was needed to demonstrate the direction of the new government.


Former chief minister and chairman of the Congress-JD-S coordination committee Siddaramaiah expressed his strong reservations over presenting a new full-fledged budget, saying there was no need for such an exercise.


Siddaramaiah, who is also the Congress Legislature Party leader, said he had already tabled the budget as chief minister a few months ago.


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