The government ought not to be disturbed by a budget that is determined by opposition votes in the National Assembly as it will be those parties that will have to answer to the electorate if the budget fails to deliver, former Speaker of the House, Ralph Ramkarran says.
Writing in his column in the PPP-aligned, the Weekend Mirror, Ramkarran noted that much speculation surrounds the Budget and the outcome of Government-Opposition engagement before its preparation and after the debate in the National Assembly. Some commentators speculate that
