‘Budget lacks concern for middle class’

Opposition parties describe it as ‘anti worker’ and ‘anti-people’

There is all-round criticism against the Budget presented by the Union government on Tuesday, with the opposition parties lashing at the Centre for ‘lacking concern’.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has denounced the Budget as ‘anti-worker’, ‘anti-people’ and termed it ‘destructive’ in nature. Akin to the Economic Survey presented a day before, the Budget reflected an insensitivity to the miseries in the form of huge loss of livelihood, loss of earnings and deepening impoverishment, its members said.