Express News Service
Hyderabad: When finance minister Anam Ramanrayana Reddy had said two days ago that the 2013-14 budget would be in accordance with the Congress party's manifesto, it was expected that he would fulfil the party's two major assurances _ 6 kg rice per head for BPL families and nine-hour uninterrupted power supply to tillers _ which were mentioned in the 2009 election manifesto.
But, there was no mention of the two schemes in the Budget presented to the Assembly on Monday.
Asked about his reaction, the minister said that the government had time till 2014. In view of the severe shortage of power, he was unable to make an announcement on nine-hour power supply to the farm sector. Sources said that when the power situation improved by the end of this year, the government would announce the same in due course. The Congress was determined to fulfil its two major assurances before going to polls in 2014, the sources said.
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