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2:1 ratio allocation witnessed in fresh budget outlay

Mumbai: Eknath Shinde’s political formation of rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and independents were given the short end of the straw in budgetary allocations made in the supplementary demands placed before the state legislature on Wednesday. In a united chorus, Shinde’s MLAs had alleged that their former alliance partner in the government, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had starved them of funds for developmental works in their constituencies, forcing their hand in rebellion to leave the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition. Apparently, ignominy refuses to leave the rebels’ political fate, with roughly Rs11,800 crore of supplementary demands cleared by the lower house on Wednesday are set to finance the ministries held by the BJP in the newfound political alliance in Maharashtra. On the other hand, Shinde and his ministers, in turn, were allocated Rs6,303 crore.

This allocation was perfectly in sync with the smaller share of portfolios allocated to them. A similar imbalance had occurred in the MVA when the Shiv Sena had the fewer number of portfolios, as compared to the NCP. The Shinde camp was expectedly unhappy by the turn of events. Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis had made it an annual ritual after the budget announcement to fine tune the share of fund outlays between the Congress and the NCP alliance partners in government till 2014.

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