KATHMANDU, June 1: Member of the House of Representatives Shakti Bahadur Basnet has urged the opposition not to make the budget a race for taking undue credit.
Speaking at Wednesday’s House of Representatives discussion on the budget for the coming fiscal year 2022/23, he said that the nation’s annual budget should not be made a race of taking undue credit.
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He said that the discussion on the purpose of each point of the budget presented by the finance minister would not take us anywhere. Basnet, a member of the ruling CPN (Maoist Center), also clarified that there was no point in discussing it as a populist budget.
Basnet said that the budget has been presented keeping the self-reliant economy in the center of priority including increase in production and employment. He also mentioned that the budget for the coming fiscal year has come as a new model of economic development.
