Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav presented the second supplementary budget on Wednesday and made a strong election pitch giving space to both regional sentiments as well as wooing Muslims.
He cleared a major highway project and approved a grant for a university in western UP’s Rampur. This is the last assembly session of the present Samajwadi Party government before the upcoming elections. The chief minister has made it clear in the past too that he wants to contest the coming elections on the plank of development, and this budget makes his political game plan for the upcoming elections rather clear.
Political observers said the young CM, who was recently embroiled in a bitter fight for supremacy with his own uncle Shivpal Yadav, would be more amenable to cast his politics and thus appeal to the public on the neutral ground of development.
