Finance Minister Ajanta Neog tables Vote-on-Account in Assam Assembly, ensuring uninterrupted government spending and continuation of developmental and administrative programmes for the first four months of the upcoming financial year as the state heads into elections
Guwahati: On the second day of the Assam Legislative Assembly’s Budget Session, State Finance Minister Ajanta Neog tabled the supplementary budget amounting to Rs 25,898.97 crore for the current financial year (List of Supplementary Demands for Grants & Supplementary Appropriation for 2025-26). The House is scheduled to discuss the supplementary budget on February 18.
As the state gears up for the polls, the finance minister is presenting a Vote-on-Account, foregoing a full-fledged budget. The interim financial statement seeks legislative approval to meet government expenditure for the first four months of the upcoming financial year. The Vote-on-Account will cover April to July, ensuring that routine administrative and developmental expenses continue uninterrupted until a new government presents a full budget after the elections.
Speaking to the media, Neog said, “Today, in the government session, we presented the fifth supplementary budget, and this is essentially a ‘vote-on-account’. There are no new schemes in it; like a regular supplementary budget, we are simply allocating funds to the existing demands.
The essence of this budget is that for the next four months, all pending expenses for our government employees or any schemes that have been constrained will be covered here. Since a new government will come after this, they can prepare their own supplementary budget. In this budget, we have only accounted for roughly half of the work we did over the past five years.”
Apart from financial business, the House is also discussing the Motion of Thanks on the Governor’s Address, with legislators from both treasury and opposition benches highlighting key policy issues, governance concerns, and political priorities. Before the tabling of the Vote-on-Account, several MLAs drew the government’s attention to pressing public matters, making the session closely watched in the run-up to the elections.
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