Madhes Provincial Assembly meeting postponed after opposition's protest

Janakpurdham, Aug 28: The meeting of the Madhes Provincial Assembly was postponed immediately after it began on Thursday. The main opposition party's protest led to the postponement.     

As soon as the meeting began in the afternoon, the opposition party’s Assembly members protested Finance Minister's betrayal to Assembly members.     

Speaker Ramchandra Mandal allowed Provincial Assembly Member Ram Ashish Yadav from the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal to put forth his views. Yadav demanded the resignation of Finance Minister Sunil Prasad Sah, stating that the provincial government brought the budget deceiving the Assembly and in the absence of the opposition, which he argued, was a wrong deed. His party would obstruct the Assembly until the finance minister resigned, he warned.     

The 'red book' presented by the government in the Madhesh Provincial Assembly had only 461 pages, courting huge controversy that prompted formation of a committee to study on it that later divulged the real red book had 305 pages, and it was passed in the absence of the opposition, Yadav asserted.     

The meeting was obstructed by the Assembly members from the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, Nepal Communist Party (Maoist Centre), Nepal Communist Party (Unified Socialists), Nepal Federal Socialist Party, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party.     

The Speaker announced that the next meeting of the Provincial Assembly would be held on Friday 1:00pm.(RSS)