New Delhi, March 26 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday tabled a bumper Rs.1 lakh crore state budget for 2025-26, a 44% jump in the size, fuelled largely by central fund inflows to revive the Capital's flagging infrastructure, solve its sanitation crisis, bolster health systems, and shore up the public transport fleet.

Gupta, who is also the finance minister, delivered a marathon 138-minute speech, littered with potshots at the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led government and her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal, and punctuated with couplets by poets Mirza Ghalib, Bashir Badr and Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

"This is not an ordinary budget. This budget is not just an account of the government's income and expenditure but is the first ...