Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Nepal disrupted the Provincial Assembly meeting on Sunday. His demand is that the budget should be revised and the culprits should be punished.
On Sunday, the agenda was to discuss the budget for the financial year 2081/082 in the provincial assembly.
As soon as the meeting started, Jaspa Nepal MP Rajuprasad Gupta demanded that the Red Book should be revised as the Chief Minister had already accepted the error.
The government has already accepted that there is a mess in the budget. Therefore, our demand is that the budget should be revised, an investigation committee should be formed and the budget should be allocated equally in all the 64 state assembly constituencies, he said.
Together with JSP Nepal, MPs of the United Socialist Party also stood up and blocked the meeting.
Whereas on Friday, after the opposition parties blocked the meeting, it was agreed to amend the appropriation bill. Chief Minister Satish Kumar Singh took the vote of confidence in the State Assembly which started after that. But on Sunday, after JSP Nepal and United Samajwadi MPs obstructed, the speaker recalled the agreement on Friday.
We discussed this issue for an hour and a half. An agreement was reached in the presence of all the political party leaders, Chief Minister, Finance Minister and other honorable members’ Speaker Ramchandra Mandal said, ‘But after discussing and agreeing on the same issue, it is not appropriate to repeat the same issue again.’
But Jaspa Nepal state MP Gupta said that the meeting will not be allowed until the official opinion of the government is received. After that, the Speaker Mandal adjourned the meeting for 10 minutes.
But the meeting could not start due to lack of consensus. The next meeting is scheduled for the 26th. There was no agreement between the parties regarding the budget. That’s why the meeting could not be held again today, said the board, “The meeting has been called for 11 am on June 26.”
What is the budget dispute?
On 16th June, along with Congress, JSP, LOSPA and RPRPA jointly submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister with three-point demands including an investigation into the budget issue. On Friday, the provincial assembly meeting was interrupted demanding budget revision and investigation committee.
Congress was also among those who demanded it. But on Saturday, the Congress left the opposition bench and went to the side of the government.
Congress and UML, who agreed to form a new government at the center, reached a decision to continue the popular opinion-led government in Madhesh.
LOSPA also supported the government.
Jaspa, which became the main opposition after the Congress came to power, has indicated that the budget issue will become more heated.
JSP Nepal and the bitterness of public opinion have also worked in this. After the November 2079 elections, according to the coalition of the center, the public opinion participated in the Saroj Kumar Yadav-led government of Jaspa Nepal. But as the alliance was changing, the bitterness of the two parties increased. The then Chief Minister Yadav had made the ministers of public opinion without department.
The bitterness of the two parties increased after the then Education Minister Mahesh Prasad Yadav, who was also the leader of Janmaat Parliamentary Party, was lathi-charged during the clash over the foundation stone laying of the building of Agricultural University in Rajviraj.
As the dispute escalated, public opinion left the government in January 2080 and blocked the House.
According to the political influence of the center, after UML and Maoists withdrew their support, the Yadav-led government of Jaspa Nepal fell in Madhesh, and Janmat’s Satish Singh became the chief minister.
Jaspa, which had reached the opposition, replaced itself and went to the government, and the public opinion-led government, which was challenging itself in the politics of Madhesh, was waiting for weakness. The Janmaat-led government, which came on June 1, had a budget dispute.
In the government’s policy and program submitted to the state assembly on 28th of June, it was announced that except for the completion of incomplete plans, no plans of less than 50 lakhs will be introduced, and no work will be done through the consumer committee. On June 1, the then Finance Minister Bharat Prasad Shah brought a budget of 43.89 billion 21.70 thousand rupees, in which it was mentioned how much budget was allocated for most of the schemes.
When the Red Book was published, it was found that many plans were kept for less than 5 million. After questions were raised about this, on June 10, Chief Minister Singh himself admitted that the staff messed up the budget.
Sources claim that the plan of more than three billion rupees differs from the budget booklet prepared by the finance minister by accessing the budget information system in the ministry of the province.
After the chief minister himself said that the staff messed up the budget, JSP Nepal made it an issue. “Jaspa discusses the budget made by the government, not the budget made by hackers”, says Ram Ashish Yadav, Chief Whip of Jaspa Nepal, “Until a high-level inquiry committee is formed and the budget is revised, we will not allow the House to function.”
Even the Samajwadi Party, which came to the opposition after being removed from power, is adamant that the budget should be revised. The Chief Minister has already accepted that there was a mistake. That’s why the budget should be amended’ says Gobind Bahadur Neupane, leader of the United Socialist Parliamentary Party
