India, Feb. 1 -- While the Union Budget 2026-27 laid a strong emphasis on sectors like defence, transport, semiconductors, and rare-earths, one of the keenly-watched areas was the allocation made to poll-bound states.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her ninth consecutive budget, made major announcements, including those for poll-bound states. However, the leaders of West Bengal and Kerala hit out at the government for "ignoring" the respective states.

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Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala are among the states to go for polls this year.

When asked on the budget allocation for the poll-bound states, the finance minister said there was "enough done to cover all these election state...