UP govt to present 2026-27 budget on Feb 11: Finance minister

This will be the last budget of Yogi 2.0 government before the 2027 UP assembly elections due early next year

The Uttar Pradesh legislature’s budget session will begin on February 9 and the state government proposes to present the state budget for 2026-2027 in the Vidhan Sabha on February 11, finance and parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said.

UP finance minister Suresh Khanna said a decision in this regard was taken by the state cabinet. (HT file)

He said a decision in this regard was taken by the state cabinet that chief minister Yogi Adityanath chaired in the Lok Bhawan on Thursday. Khanna said the budget session of the state legislature will begin with governor Anandiben Patel’s address before the joint sitting of the two houses of the legislature in the Vidhan Sabha hall here.

This will be the last budget of Yogi 2.0 government before the 2027 UP assembly elections due early next year. The Vidhan Sabha will be adjourned for the day on February 10 after paying homage to its sitting members—BJP’s Shyam Bihari Lal from Faridpur, Bareilly, and Samajwadi Party’s Duddhi MLA Vijay Singh Gond who passed away earlier this month.