New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed the budget for 2019-20 amid ruckus by the opposition BJP over an attack on its legislator's house at Hassan, allegedly by workers of the ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) on Wednesday.
"Sensing no let-up in the disruption of the proceedings by BJP legislators, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy moved the finance bill for the approval of the assembly by voice vote on the direction of Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar without debate," a senior official told IANS.
Kumaraswamy, who holds the finance portfolio, presented the budget on February 8 amid walkout by the BJP members on the grounds that the ruling JD-S-Congress government had lost "majority" as a few Congress legislators skipped the...