UML protests Bagmati State’s Rs 70.93 budget
The state government had recently presented Rs 70.93 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, more than Rs 13 billion than the current fiscal year.
KATHMANDU: CPN (UML)’s Bagmati State parliamentary party has disapproved of the budget allocated for Bagmati State for the upcoming fiscal year 2022/23.
The state government had recently presented Rs 70.93 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, more than Rs 13 billion than the current fiscal year.
The recently held two-day meeting of the parliamentary party of the major opposition decided to protest the budget citing the state government violated the political agreement with the major opposition party for budget distribution.
The meeting chaired by former Chief Minister of Bagmati State Astalaxmi Shakya also deliberated on the roles to be played by the UML in the upcoming parliament meetings, informed UML parliamentary party’s chief whip Deepak Niraula.
Niraula shared that the UML blamed that the Bagmati State government had allocated a negligible budget in the local levels and wards where the UML had secured victory in the May 13’s local level election.
The deliberation deliberated that a single ward where the leading political party in the state government had won had over 61 projects/schemes proposed and tax exemption was considered with a vested interest, and there was duplication of more than 359 programs/schemes.
The imminent Bagmati State Assembly meeting could be obstructed if the state government fails to implement the agreement with the major opposition party and to make the ‘distributive budget’ proportionate, warned the UML parliamentary party.
The Bagmati State Assembly meeting is slated on June 26.
