Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu will present the fifth Budget of the present DMK regime for 2025-26 today in a charged-up political atmosphere.
This will be his second Budget presentation after he was made the Finance Minister in a Cabinet shuffle in May 2023. He had presented his maiden Budget in February last year.
Several crucial announcements were likely to be outlined in his speech, especially on the social sector on which the state government has been increasing the expenditure and other sectors, as Tamil Nadu would face the Assembly election in 2026.
The ruling DMK dispensation is eyeing the upcoming Assembly election on the language row and constituency delimitation exercise.
The opposition parties, especially the AIADMK and the BJP have been targeting the state government on the alleged deterioration of law and order and ‘mounting debts’ and they are likely to raise these issues during the session, the duration of which will be announced tomorrow.
On March 15, Agriculture Minister M R K Panneerselvam would present the Agriculture Budget.