Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, a trade union affiliated to RSS, the ideological parent of BJP on Wednesday hit out at the union budget saying it had failed to live upto its objective and had not provided relief to those affected by the demonetisation.
The BMS said the budget was disappointing to workers, salaried class and the poor. "The unorganised sectors, scheme workers and other labour-related concern—enhancement of their honorarium, social security cover -- are totally overlooked," BMS general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay said in a statement.
“Budget presented by the finance minister (Arun Jaitley) for the year 2017-2018 failed to address the objective of budget as declared by him. The said objective of the budget was to 'Transform, Energise and Clean India' with the approach of poverty alleviation. There was huge revenue collection through demonetisation but same has not been transferred in social expending,” he said.
As everyone was expecting huge relief to those affected by the demonetisation, the RSS affiliated union said, budget had not given much. “Migration caused due to demonetisation is not addressed. Though budgetary allocation to MNREGA has been increased, it is not in tune to the unemployment caused due to the demonetisation-led migration,” Upadhyay added in a scathing criticism of the budget.
As the NDA government boasted of giving tax relief to the salaried, the RSS body termed the tax relief as “not as much as expected”.
BMS directed its affiliates to hold demonstration immediately against the budget to demand relook on the proposals and compensation to common man who supported demonetisation by bearing all sufferings. It called for strengthening labour intensive industries.