The opposition party UML has commented that the government's budget for the upcoming fiscal year has failed to touch the poor.

Aryal, the deputy leader of the UML parliamentary party, made the comment while participating in a general discussion on the budget in the House of Representatives meeting on Thursday. She also said that the budget lacks a concrete program that would uplift the disadvantaged, keep the fire burning in their hearths, and bring smiles to their faces. Deputy leader Aryal objected that the government's budget has adopted a policy of making the poor poorer and the rich richer.

'The budget has not touched poverty.' The entire budget statement does not properly address the word poverty. The government says - to develop the middle class. There is nothing to say about it. But how can this goal be achieved? My question is - how can the size of the upper class be increased without uplifting the lower class citizens who are below the 20 percent absolute poverty line? How scientific is it to add floors by keeping the foundation weak?,’ she asked.

Aryal says that this budget has adopted a policy of keeping the lower class at the bottom and taking the upper class further up. ‘It is a budget that will further widen the class gap between the haves and have-nots. The size of the middle class is not that wide. For this, the income of the lower class had to increase,’ she said.