Promising and committed, but his Cabinet colleagues have to walk the talk
Mangala’s ‘Mangala Budget’ – Part I
Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera presenting Budget 2018
A budget is a short-term financial plan-Monday, 13 November 2017 
Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s Mangala Budget (Maiden Budget) was presented to Parliament last week. A budget is simply a one year financial plan of the government. But modern budgets have become a medium-term enterprise for governments in the sense that they are linked to the government policy a few years before and a few years hence.