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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Finance Minister Dr Thomas Isaac is presenting the state budget for the fiscal year 2020-21. He started presenting the budget criticizing the central government’s policies. He pointed out that democracy and dictatorship are face to face in the country and the central government have administrators speaking only the language of hatred.

Isaac boasted that the LDF government in the last four years has spent double the money the previous UDF government in its five years spent on welfare pensions. All welfare pensions like old age, widow etc have been hiked by Rs 100. The beneficiaries will now get Rs 1,300 monthly.