<h1>Federal principles undermined: conditional central funding and budget choices alleged to constrain state fiscal autonomy and shift responsibilities.</h1> Allegations focus on central budgetary measures and a conditional loan that purportedly violate federal principles by constraining state fiscal autonomy and shifting recurrent expenditure burdens onto the state; the Centre is also accused of using conditional funding and rhetorical reframing to reallocate responsibility for disaster rehabilitation and human-wildlife conflict away from itself.