Gogoi tables ‘populist’ budget

With a series of populist measures chief minister Tarun Gogoi tabled his state budget for 2014-15 in the assembly on Monday.

Gogoi, who holds the finance portfolio read out his budget speech after the end of the question hours on the floor.

His populist measures were on the expected line in the wake of his party’s humiliating defeat in the recent Lok Sabha polls hardly one and a half years before the assembly polls.        

Gogoi refrained  from tabling his full fledge budget n March because of the general poll in April and May. He tabled only the vote on account on the floor in March.