premise: India's tax-cutting reform budget faced fresh trouble Sunday when a communist partner in the ousted coalition challenged the caretaker government's right to pass it in parliament.
  The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said the United Front, which was voted out Friday and holds office in a caretaker capacity, had no constitutional authority to pass the budget for the year to March 1998.
  "Once the government is ousted, then its budget proposals become defunct," said Ashok Mitra, a senior CPI-M member.
  "President Shankar Dayal Sharma should ask the government to instead approve a vote-on-account.
  "This is my party's view," he added.
   Why does the current government had no authority to pass the budget?
hypothesis: holds office in a caretaker capacity