Overview
- The Karnataka government’s budget add-on, tabled Monday in the Assembly, includes another ₹10 crore for Meppadi rehabilitation within the third and final 2025–26 supplementary estimates worth ₹14,767.89 crore.
- This second instalment takes the year’s commitment to ₹20 crore, following an August 2025 allotment of ₹10 crore that targeted housing for 100 families hit by the 2024 Wayanad landslides.
- BJP and JD(S) leaders stepped up attacks Tuesday, with R. Ashoka calling Siddaramaiah the “Keralam chief minister” and critics pointing to unpaid local dues as they question aid to Priyanka Gandhi’s Wayanad seat.
- Siddaramaiah has defended the outlay as a humanitarian duty in a federal system, recalling that heavy rain and landslips in 2024 killed many and displaced families in the Kerala border district.
- The same document funds legal fees for senior advocate Kapil Sibal, a ₹10 crore Davos delegation, and ₹16.3 crore to clear convention bills, which opponents use to argue the government’s spending priorities serve political optics before Kerala’s polls.