Left parties stage protest against union budget
Mangaluru, Feb 04, 2022: Defining the union budget as anti-poor and pro-corporate, the left parties staged a protest in Mangaluru on Thursday.
“The government should have come out with some program in the budget to help the people who are suffering due to Covid lockdown for the last two years. Instead, the government has tabled a budget that would help the corporates,” CPI district secretary V Kukyan alleged.
CPIM Dakshina Kannada district secretary K Yadava Shetty blamed the government for failing to keep his promises.
“The Narendra Modi government had assured to crate 2 crore employment in a year. While 14 crore people should have been provided employment in the last seven years, the fact is that people have lost jobs. The present budget again claims of creating 60 lakh jobs in next 5 years,” he alleged.
Addressing the protestors CPIM leader Sunil Kumar Bajal said that the BJP leaders who speak in support of the budget fail to narrate how it has helped the common man, farmers, and laborers.
“A budget should help the public and not corporate companies,” he said.
CPIM district leaders J Balakrishna Shetty, Sukumar, Sadashivadas, Padmavathi Shetty, Muneer Katipalla, Dr. Krishnappa Konchadi, Jayanth Nayak, Jayanthi Shetty, Bashir Panjimogaru, Vasudeva Uchil, CPI leaders B Shekhar, Prabhakar Rao, Suresh Kumar, Karunakar, Rajeev, Bhaskar, CITU leaders Yogish Jappinamogaru, Babu Devadiga, Ashok Shreyan, Nagesh Kotyan, AITUC leaders H V Rao, Praveen, youth leaders B K Imtiaz, Santhosh Bajal, Manoj Vamanjur, Jagadish Bajal, Krishnappa Vamanjur, Jagatpal, Pushparaj, Harshita, Keshavati, women leaders Bharati Bolar, Nalinakshi, Vilasini, Pramila Shaktinagara, Dalit leaders Timmayya Konchadi, progressive thinker Asunta D’Souza and others were present.
