Budget Reactions

Budget a Desperate Bid by Modi Government to Attract Votes

THE interim union budget for 2019-20, placed in parliament by interim finance minister Piyush Goyal on February 1, is a fraudulent attempt to cheat the people in a desperate bid by the BJP-led government to attract votes when defeat in the ensuing parliamentary election is staring at its face.Various class and mass organisations of the CPI(M) have rejected the budget, the last before the term of this BJP government led by Narendra Modi ends, as another jumla.

Union Budget Anti-People and Deceptive

VARIOUS mass and class organisations have denounced the union budget for 2018-19, placed in parliament by finance minister Arun Jaitley on February 1, as “anti-people, anti-worker and deceptive”. In the last full budget of the NDA government before the 2019 general elections, the finance minister resorted to lies and deceit through high rhetoric and overestimated projections.CITUThe Union Budget turned out to be a deceptive one, meticulously articulated to misguide and confuse the people.

Union Budget 2018-19: Protest against Further Attacks on People’s Livelihood

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1, 2018THIS last full budget of the Modi government before the next general elections reflects, once again, its clear commitment to serve the interests of foreign and domestic big corporates while mounting further assaults on the vast majority of the working people of our country. This assault is, however, sought to be window-dressed to appear as its opposite.The budget does not seek to mobilise revenues by increasing  direct taxes applicable  to the rich, in spite of the fact that the top one per c

Mass Organisations React on Union Budget 2018-19

ALL INDIA FEDERATION OF ANGANWADI WORKERS AND HELPERSThe election manifesto of the BJP for the 2014 parliament elections says that if voted to power it will “Review the working conditions and enhance the remuneration of Anganwadi worker's”. The last full budget of the NDA government is the proof of not only the breaking of its promise but also of the criminal neglect of India’s eight crore malnourished children and two crore pregnant mothers. Since 2011, the remuneration of the anganwadi employees had not been increased whereas the working hours had been in

ANTI-PEOPLE, PRO-CORPORATE BUDGET

THE Union Budget 2017-18 presented by the finance minister on February 1 in parliament is totally disappointing and deceptive in many respects. CITU’S RESPONSE TO THE BUDGETThe Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on February 1, has noted that the  finance minister, in his budget speech, boastfully mentioned about doing away with the classification of plan and non-plan expenditure, putting the entire expenditure in one basket.

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