Analysts say that when the Chief Minister and the Finance Minister are from different parties, MPs enter into bargaining
On 25 February 2074, the then Chief Minister of Madhesh Province, Lal Babu Raut, took the Financial Procedure Bill to the Provincial Assembly for the operation of the newly formed provincial government. The state assembly secretariat refused to register the bill saying that due to the non-cooperation of Vijay Yadav, the economic affairs minister of the Raut-led government, the bill had not been processed.
The bill should be registered in the Provincial Assembly Secretariat with the comments of the Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. However, due to the non-cooperation of Economic Affairs Minister Yadav, Chief Minister Raut took the bill himself without the Secretary's comment. The then Chief Minister Raut, who was facing trouble from his own party and the ruling party in every subsequent budget, went to the state assembly meeting with his resignation when he found out about the failure of the MPs from his own party to fail in the budget of the financial year 077/078 .
Raut's party, Janata Samajwadi Party, had planned to fail the budget by being absent from the provincial assembly due to the covid epidemic. Before going to the state assembly meeting with his resignation letter, Raut made such MPs to get 'threats' from the power centers . With that threat, not only the budget of the Raut government was approved by the majority, but his ascension to power was also prolonged. In the last year of his tenure, Raut, who had failed to cooperate with the Minister of Economic Affairs Yadav in the budget for 4 consecutive financial years, removed Yadav from the Ministry of Finance and handed over the responsibility of the state government's finances to the Minister of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Shailendra Shah .
Finance Minister Sunil Kumar Yadav
After Raut completed his 5-year term, the leader of his party, Saroj Kumar Yadav, who became the Chief Minister of Madhesh Province, brought the budget for the financial year 080/081. A parliamentary special committee was formed to investigate Sanjay Kumar Yadav, the finance minister of the Yadav-led government, on the grounds that he had taken commission and distributed the budget on his own. Although the committee has investigated and submitted the report to the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, it has not been made public yet.
The allegation that 'middlemen' are dominating the budget of the Madhesh state government came out from this financial year. The then Chief Minister Yadav's government fell while he was in the final stages of implementing the budget. The government formed under the leadership of Janmat Party leader Satish Kumar Singh has brought the budget for two financial years in Madhesh province. The government led by Singh, who became the chief minister on June 25, 2008, brought the budget on June 1, 2008. The government even formed an inquiry committee saying that there was an "intrusion of middlemen into the budget making process".
The government led by Chief Minister Singh, who brought the budget for the fiscal year 082/083 on June 1, has been under tension ever since. Parliamentarians were surprised when they read the red book of the budget, which was brought with priority on agriculture, education, health and infrastructure, from the Pigeon Hall of the State Assembly Secretariat on Wednesday. On the same day, the discussion on the budget was started in the state assembly meeting. Only opposition party Janata Samajwadi Party, Chief Whip of Nepal Ramishish Yadav and MP Ramita Pradhan of ruling partner party LOSPA participated in the discussion.
'Perhaps it seems that the honorable gentlemen have an in-depth study left . Speaker Ramchandra Mandal said while adjourning the meeting, the next meeting will be held on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. However, the next day the meeting of the state assembly was not held and the notice of indefinite postponement was postponed. Not only the ruling party of the government led by Chief Minister Singh, but also his own party is deeply dissatisfied with the public opinion that all his plans have not been included in the red book.
Chairman of Janmat Party CK Raut expressed his displeasure in the budget of Madhesh state government on social media by saying that there are many plans of middlemen and few plans of the people. On Thursday, the meeting of the parliamentary party of the Madhesh province of the Janmat Party expressed dissatisfaction with the budget and decided that the secretariat was given the responsibility to make a decision about the government. The government led by Raut and Yadav gave the responsibility of the finance ministry to the minister of their own party. However, in the current financial year 081/082 budget in the Singh-led government, Bharat Prasad Shah, who became a minister from the Maoist (Centre), and Sunil Kumar Yadav, who was a minister from the Congress, brought the budget for 082/083.
When both the chief minister and the finance minister of different parties dominate the budget and considering it as a weak link, when the parliamentarians start bargaining, the chief ministers are under siege after the budget comes. According to analyst Roshan Janakpuri, he says that he is under siege because of the budget that is brought chaotically without prioritization. There is no planned budget. The budget is not brought by prioritizing," Janakpuri said. "The budget is a combination of the interests of the Chief Minister, Minister, MP, Secretary, staff and party, so a budget brought on an individual basis rather than development will cause problems."
