Hyderabad, Feb. 10 -- Reacting to the Congress government's maiden state budget, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Harish Rao described it as a "let down" to the people of Telangana.

State finance minister and deputy chief minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka presented the Vote-on-Account budget on Saturday, February 10 at the Assembly.

Harish Rao said that the promises made by the Congress party during the Assembly elections have evaporated in thin air.

Rao, who was finance minister in the previous BRS government, warned the government to brace itself to face the ire of the farming community after the budget announced Rs 19,746 crore of which nearly Rs 3,000 crore would go for establishment charges such as staff salaries.

"The allocati...