Ram Kumari Jhankri Questions Budget and Finance Minister's Actions

Kathmandu. CPN UML MP Ram Kumari Jhankri has raised questions about the budget brought by the government and the working style of the Finance Minister. In the National Assembly meeting, during the theoretical discussion on the budget, Jhankri accused Finance Minister Dr. Wagle's statements of being contradictory and trying to hide factual realities. Jhankri accused the government's activities of being 'deceitful'.

She said that there is a big gap between what Finance Minister Dr. Wagle said earlier and his current behavior. 'The Finance Minister's words have changed, those who are called new are actually old,' Jhankri said, 'Now he has explained taking loans as an 'essential condition'. There was no consistency in his words and actions.

She said that it is not appropriate for the Finance Minister, who used to say that individuals take loans and put them in their pockets when he was not a minister, to now call taking loans an essential condition. 'The Finance Minister is saying today that the state cannot run without loans. The Finance Minister used to say that taking loans in the past was wrong, but now saying 'loans are an essential condition' is something that even my mother's 'domestic economics' would not understand as such a contradictory statement,' she said.

Jhankri commented that although the new powers and figures are saying that everything is fine outside, disorder has flourished in practice. She also questioned how the Finance Minister, who has been a member and vice-chairman of the Planning Commission, could be new.

She also urged RSP MPs and ministers to look at their past.