New Delhi: In a bid to deliver five key poll promises made to the electorate, the newly sworn-in Congress government in Karnataka on Friday, July 7 set aside approximately Rs 52,000 crore for the financial year 2023-24.State chief minister N. Siddaramaiah, who is also the finance minister, made the announcement while presenting his government’s first annual budget at the assembly.A veteran politician, Siddaramaiah, on Friday broke the record of former chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde by presenting his 14th state budget as finance minister.According to local news reports, the chief minister, presenting the 2023-24 budget with an outlay of over 3.27 lakh crore, said delivering these five guarantees to the electorate would mean each household would have an additional financial assistance of Rs 4,000-Rs 5,000 every month. He said it would likely benefit 1.3 crore families.These five poll promises, or guarantees, include free bus ride for women travellers, 200 units of free electricity, 10 kilograms of free food grains to the poor households, Rs 2,000 financial assistance to women-led households, and unemployment benefit of Rs 3,000.These poll promises of the Congress had found resonance in the state’s voters which, political observers had said, have helped the party steer towards a landslide victory in the recent elections. The Congress pocketed 135 of the 224 assembly seats in the state.