Dhangadi, June 29

Members of the Provincial Assembly representing the opposition party in Sudurpashchim Province have vowed to continue obstructing the assembly until the budget is rectified.

Identifying the government’s budget for the next fiscal as ‘distributive and discriminatory’, the opposition parties, Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal jointly held a press conference in Dhangadi today, reiterating their demand that the government make necessary changes in the budget.

“The assembly has already been obstructed four times over the same issue, and we’re committed doing all it takes to prevent the assembly from convening until the government is ready to amend the budget,” said NC parliamentary party leader Rana Bahadur Rawal, adding that the socalled budget lacked balance and transparency and would not be successful.

“Standard process and procedures were not followed in preparing the budget. The budget is scattered over small projects, with the intention of benefiting ruling party cadres.

This kind of budget does nothing other than promoting corruption,” Rawal argued.

RJP-N Provincial Assembly member Krishna Chaudhary echoed the Nepali Congress leader in criticising the budget and clarified that his party’s lawmakers wouldn’t let the assembly convene as long as talks with the government remained inconclusive.

Though the government has scheduled a meeting with the opposition parties on Sunday, the meeting is least likely to take place as the opposition leaders say that the government is not in the mood to attend it.

The PA has witnessed obstruction four times ever since the opposition burnt the red book to protest the budget.