Budget has ignored the common man: Bajwa

Chandigarh, February 28, 2015: The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today assailed the budget presented by the Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley  as the one in which the common man had been completely ignored. It was listless and direction less and represented sectoral bias.

In a statement, Mr Bajwa said the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi had been talking of improving the life of the common man but there was no indication that the budget would carry the country’s economy  towards that direction. He said the Modi government had earlier utterly failed in arresting the price level and one had expected that this inflation might be neutralised for the common man at least by raising the taxable income level to leave more money in the pocket of the common man.

He asserted that a prime minister who was fond of wearing Rs 10 lakh suits could not be expected to think about the common man despite the fact of his having risen from an ordinary family.

He said the budget was total appeasement of the corporate sector which had heavily funded the election campaign of the BJP. It was for this reason that this sector had hailed the budget as a big bang budget. But then so far as the common person was concerned, there was nothing much in it.

The budget was totally in tune with the economic philosophy of the current BJP leadership in the government which  associated more with raising the high expectations of the people without doing anything concrete for them as evident from this budget.

Earlier, all the decisions of the government had been anti-farmer and the budget was the manifestation of that doctrine of this leadership in which the common person had no place, he  said adding that all along, it had been the Congress that had been identified with the masses.