Budget talk turns into verbal volleys at Big 3

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The Reporters' Club Nepal organised the face to face programme to discuss how responsible are the parties for bringing the budget within October 26.

KATHMANDU: Member of the standing committee of the Unified CPN-Maoist, Dev Prasad Gurung has said the care-taker government under the leadership of Madhav Nepal is making ill-intentioned attempts to introduce the full-fledged budget by infringing on the Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2007.

Speaking at a face-to-face programme organised at the Reporters' Club Nepal on Monday, he said the UCPN-Maoist expressed the commitment that his party is committed to abiding by the constitution in letter and spirit but it would not sit idly by if the care-taker government tries to infringe the constitution.

He alleged the leaders of the Nepali Congress and the CPN -UML of twisting his party's statement that the door to consensus would open after the prime minister's resignation.

Gurung said the country has been stuck in a serious crisis as the Nepali Congress and the CPN- UML forced upon the majority and the parliamentary system by replacing the consensual system.

Member of the Nepali Congress central committee, Deep Kumar Upadhyaya urged the CPN -UML to make its views clear regarding supporting the Nepali Congress' prime ministerial candidate.

He stressed the need for detaching the UCPN -Maoist's from arms and the combatants and that withdrawing the party's prime ministerial candidate is secondary.

Leader of the CPN -UML Pradip Gyawali pointed out the need of keeping the national economy above the politics. He suggested holding discussions in package for formation of new government.

Former Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, Deependra Bahadur Chhetri, economist Chiranjivi Nepal, president of Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) Surendra Bir Malakar, advisor at the Ministry of Finance Keshav Prasad Acharya said the country will face a serious economic crisis if the full-fledged budget is not brought soon.

They said so far 40 billion rupees have been released and the remaining nine billion rupees would not be sufficient to sustain the expenses until mid-November.

The Reporters' Club Nepal organised the face to face programme to discuss how responsible are the parties for bringing the budget within October 26.