<h1>Budget allocation disparity leaves Karnataka with negligible support, prompting accusations of regional favoritism and unmet project funding.</h1> Karnataka's leadership criticised the national budget for providing negligible support to the state, asserting that key infrastructure projects-water-storage, irrigation, urban stormwater drains and business corridors-were left unfunded after prior requests to the Centre, and alleging partisan prioritisation of grants to other states; the Chief Minister qualified his remarks by saying he had not read the entire budget or the full budget speech and relied on the main features.