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Controversy Over Submitting Budget And Prime Ministerial Election
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 20, 2010: members of the officiating government headed by Madhav Nepal have been telling the public that the government is determined to submit a full-fledged budget for the fiscal year 2001 (2068) in the last week of the October but they have shifted the date to mid November.
However, the UCPN-Maoist leaders have been saying that the officiating government has no rights to prepare and submit a full-scale budget. To this bandwagon, the leaders of the Madheshi political parties have joined. They have been sticking to their stance on only the to-be-elected new government will submit a full-scale budget for the fiscal year 2011 (2068).
The prime ministerial election has been a bit of joke, as the single candidate for a Prime Minister has been receiving number of votes in a sliding scale every time, an election is held. However, NC candidate Ram Chandra Poudel has not be tired of running the race for a new Prime Minister in the shrinking field every time an election is held. The 13th round of the election will be held on October 26, 2010. Some people have said that Mr. Poudel has been a clown in the political circus.
Following the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007, a candidate needs to secure at least 301 votes out of the 601 votes in the current legislature but Mr. Poudel has been receiving slightly more than one hundred votes but even decreasing numbers every time a next election is held. Maybe, Mr. Poudel will continue to run for a Prime Minister until he will receive no votes at all.
