As the plans of the opposition MPs will also be included in the annual development program booklet, there was no controversy like in other provinces when the budget was brought in Gandaki. Although there is no separate program to include MP's plans in the budget, plans are prepared to be included in the red book according to the given ceiling.
In Gandaki, the opposition MPs have received one plan less than the ruling party from the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport. Plans worth about 4.5 million rupees are being given to directly elected parliamentarians of the ruling party from 5 ministries that have development budgets, about 40 million rupees to directly elected opposition parliamentarians, about 2.5 million rupees to proportional members of the ruling party and about 2 million rupees to proportional opposition parliamentarians.
Currently there are 59 members in the provincial assembly, 27 including the Congress chief minister, 22 including the deputy speaker of the UML, 7 including the speaker of the Maoist center, 2 from the RPP and one from the NESP. There is a two-thirds majority government with Congress, UML and NESP. The Maoists, who have 6 MPs, did not give a vote of confidence to Chief Minister Surendraraj Pandey. The RPP, which gave a vote of confidence to Chief Minister Pandey to save the government, has been sitting on the opposition bench.
The opposition party is in favor of clarifying the role only after receiving the ministerial budget booklet. Maoist MP and former Minister of Physics Reshamm Bahadur Jugjali commented that plans for revenue growth and job creation were not included in the budget. He said that although the current year's budget was brought to halt the multi-year plan, there will be more certainty about this year's ministerial budget. The plan that created the liability came to a standstill when the budget was brought last year. Its figure will be more clear when it comes to the relevant ministry,' he said, 'now it looks like it is distribution-oriented and happy to the workers.' The size was increased after the pressure of having to pay for the old plans, budgeting for the plans of ministers and parliamentarians, and not being able to add new plans when bringing in a budget of 30 billion. A budget of 31 billion 97 crore 99 lakh 99 thousand rupees has been brought for the next financial year. A budget of 998.5 million 76 thousand rupees less than the current financial year has been brought.
In the current financial year, the government brought a budget of 32 billion 97 million 85 million 75 thousand. Minister of Economic Affairs Takaraj Gurung said that the budget is narrower than the current financial year because the internal revenue of the province has not increased as expected and the subsidy received from the Union has decreased.
