As the date of announcing the budget for the financial year 2082/83 is approaching, most of the parliamentarians have started to suggest budgeting in their respective constituencies.

It is not a new phenomenon that the parliamentarians who won the election by showing the hope of development with peace and good governance to the people of the election are putting pressure on the finance minister to budget for their areas. The list of MPs who take funds from the MP Development Fund to fill their pockets and distribute the funds to workers is long. After the MP's funds were misused in this way, the court stopped giving the money, but the MPs put pressure on the finance minister in the name of infrastructure development and kept it in the budget.

In the name of developing constituencies, it is not considered appropriate for parliamentarians to give and take money around in any way. The job of MPs is to make laws and enforce them. To monitor the government. The responsibility of developing projects where possible and where necessary is the responsibility of the government, not the parliamentarians. Who will supervise the parliamentarians when the parliamentarians who are supposed to monitor the government start taking the budget in the name of development? It is the local level and the state government that will be directly involved in development. What was the difference between the MP and the ward president after the MPs started joining the development work done by the ward president? The time has come for parliamentarians to answer that question. Therefore, parliamentarians should not forget their responsibility to monitor the government and distribute the budget equally across the country by making laws.

– Til Prasad Neupane , Machhapokhari Chowk, Kathmandu