Opposition protests missed chance to question police spending

Akash Sama­roo

The Op­po­si­tion is lament­ing that it was un­able to ques­tion the Gov­ern­ment about mil­lions of dol­lars al­lo­cat­ed for po­lice in­fra­struc­ture, equip­ment and oth­er de­vel­op­ment projects af­ter blam­ing Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee (SFC) chair­man Jagdeo Singh for mov­ing past a key ex­pen­di­ture item dur­ing yes­ter­day’s SFC ex­am­i­na­tion of the 2027 Bud­get with­out paus­ing for their ques­tions.

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Singh, how­ev­er, main­tained that he had fol­lowed the es­tab­lished pro­ce­dure, in­sist­ing that he paused af­ter an­nounc­ing the ex­pen­di­ture item and moved on on­ly af­ter no Op­po­si­tion mem­ber in­di­cat­ed an in­ten­tion to ask ques­tions.