Andhra Pradesh State Assembly Speaker Kodela Sivaprasad recently announced that assembly sessions will commence from March 5th. In this context, AP State Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu stated that AP State Budget will be introduced in the State Assembly on March 8th, at 11:30 am in a press meet.
AP CM Chandrababu Naidu will go through the proposed-budget one final time, before it is introduced in the Assembly on March 8th.

It will be interesting to see whether the TDP government will shower sops in the name of ‘welfare schemes’ or will stick to ‘development’ mantra by allotting funds to infrastructure development.
Meanwhile, political analysts opined that the upcoming 2018 – 2019 State Budget will be an ‘attractive’ one in the wake of 2019 Assembly elections. It is also learnt that Finance Minister Ramakrishnudu already held multiple conferences with concerned officials and Cabinet Ministers while drafting the budget.

At the same time, the upcoming budget is likely to give a clear idea about TDP’s political line up, and its strategies during the election campaigning for the 2019 elections.