Chandigarh, March 4 -- The Congress on Tuesday attacked the BJP government in Haryana for drastically reducing the budgetary allocation for social security pensions including the Old Age Samman allowance for 2026-27 fiscal.

Quoting from budget documents, Congress general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Randeep Singh Surjewala at a briefing said that allocation for Old Age Samman allowance was decreased by about 40% from Rs.6,700 crore (as per 2025-26 revised estimates) to Rs.3,970 crore in the 2026-27 budget estimates presented by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday. "This shows that the BJP government is preparing for large scale deletions of beneficiaries of old age pensions,'' the Congress leader said.

Surjewala, a former Haryan...