Bagmati, June 24 (RSS) : CPN (UML)'s Bagmati Province parliamentary party has disapproved of the budget allocated for Bagmati Province for the upcoming fiscal year 2022/23.
The provincial 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 provincial government violated the political agreement with
the major opposition party for budget distribution.
The meeting chaired by former Chief
Minister of Bagmati Province 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 Province 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 provincial 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 Provincial
Assembly meeting could be obstructed if the provincial 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 Provincial Assembly
meeting is slated for June 26.