{"id":24900,"date":"2025-06-19T16:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=24900"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:31:50","slug":"mp-thapa-tears-budget-booklet-in-parliament-citing-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mp-thapa-tears-budget-booklet-in-parliament-citing-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Thapa Tears Budget Booklet in Parliament, Citing Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 19 :\u00a0 CPN (Unified Socialist) lawmaker Amar Bahadur Thapa sparked controversy in the House of Representatives on Thursday after tearing apart the federal budget booklet during a parliamentary session.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing strong dissatisfaction with the newly unveiled budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Thapa accused the government of crafting a budget that favored ministers and political leaders over the general public. &#8220;This is not a people-centric budget. It\u2019s tailored to benefit ministers and party elites,&#8221; he said while justifying his action on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>The incident drew attention from fellow lawmakers and is likely to fuel further debate over the equity and priorities of the government&#8217;s fiscal plan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 19 :\u00a0 CPN (Unified Socialist) lawmaker Amar Bahadur Thapa sparked controversy in the House of Representatives on Thursday after tearing apart the federal budget booklet during a parliamentary session. Expressing strong dissatisfaction with the newly unveiled budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Thapa accused the government of crafting a budget that favored ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-economy","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24902,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24900\/revisions\/24902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}