GUWAHATI: Ruling BJP-led alliance in Assam will present its last budget on March 4, just about 11 months before the state goes to polls. Finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday gave clear indications that with election in sight, this year’s budget will be packed with sops.“This being the last budget of this government, all the partner parties had a meeting today and discussed in details how to go about our budget. We have decided that the budget will be pro-people, progressive and one for development,” Sarma said.“The bottomline of this budget will be an attempt to consolidate our gains made in the last four years of this government. During this period all our welfare work have been distributed across the state and now in this budget we will be trying to consolidate all these in one stream,” Sarma added.He said that there will be “lot of new things” in the budget. “For every politician, election is an important objective, but if a budget ahead of an election brings development for people, what’s wrong with it. One may say the budget before election is unjust if it provides for ways to capture booths.”In his last budget, Sarma had captured the nation’s attention by introducing several new schemes including 10 gram gold to brides from poor families and rice at Re 1 a kilo.Breaking away from the convention of keeping budget details a secret until they are laid in the assembly, Sarma, speaking at a joint BJP-AGP “sankalpa”(resolve) rally at Bokakhat last month announced that this time the government will deliver to free rice and pulses and sugar at 50% subsidised rate.Sarma also announced ‘mechanism’ to deal with the trouble poor people face in terms of their monthly medical bills and buying books for their children.From free rice and books to subsidised pulses and medical assistance, Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday gave away a list of sops the government is going to announce in the state budget. The announcements gain significance as this will be the last full budget presented by the BJP-led state government before the state goes to polls next year.Sarma promise that the new budget will ensure that development in Assam will be taken to a “new height.” He is also expected to make some announcements for protecting indigenous people and their future.