"Rs 200 Crore For Miss World Pageant?" KTR Slams Telangana Government | Read

Telangana's opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi has pounced on Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's admissions - a Rs 71,000 revenue shortfall; barely enough cash to pay salaries, let alone Dearness Allowances; and "no money for capex" - to question spending Rs 200 crore on a beauty pageant.

Opposition party lawmakers protested Tuesday afternoon as the annual budget was read out in the Assembly. They carried handfuls of dried crops to emphasise claims of a "Congress-made drought" and shot down the Miss World event, demanding instead Rs 25,000 per acre to affected farmers.