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Union Budget is fraudulent: Sitaram Yechury

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Jul 05, 2019, at 04:43 pm

New Delhi, July 5 (IBNS): Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury criticised the Union Budget and described it as 'fraudulent'.

"The Budget is fraudulent. The FM has used February 2019 interim Budget’s revised estimates as the revised estimates for the whole year 2018-19! Expenditure cuts in the last quarter in the run up to polls are not accounted for! So a rosy picture of the economy is based on jugglery," he tweeted.

The Budget is fraudulent. The FM has used February 2019 interim Budget’s revised estimates as the revised estimates for the whole year 2018-19! Expenditure cuts in the last quarter in the run up to polls are not accounted for! So a rosy picture of the economy is based on jugglery
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) July 5, 2019

He said no mention has been made in the budget to tackle the issue of job crisis.

"On the massive job crisis that India faces, there is nothing in the Budget. The agrarian distress is also not addressed. No debt-relief and nothing on investment in the sector which is badly required," he said.

Pay back time for the corporates. 99.3% of them get hefty tax relief but for the majority of Indians, it will be higher priced petroleum products which will feed inflation all-round. #Budget https://t.co/SAi4s0jmZ7
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) July 5, 2019

The Communist leader further said: "Pay back time for the corporates. 99.3% of them get hefty tax relief but for the majority of Indians, it will be higher priced petroleum products which will feed inflation all-round. #Budget."

On the massive job crisis that India faces, there is nothing in the Budget. The agrarian distress is also not addressed. No debt-relief and nothing on investment in the sector which is badly required https://t.co/ybSHtGfjh0
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) July 5, 2019

Union Finance Minister Nirmala SItharaman presented her maiden budget on Friday.

#SitaramYechury #NirmalaSitharaman #Budget #UnionBudget2019

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