Chennai, Feb 1 (BPNS)
The Tamil Nadu unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has said that the Union budget was presented aiming the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the budget was discriminating against Tamil Nadu.
The CPI state secretary, R. Mutharasan in a statement on Wednesday said the Union budget presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had not provided GST compensation that was due to Tamil Nadu.
The senior leader in the statement charged that the Union budget had announced an assistance of Rs 5300 crore to the Upper Badra project in Karnataka meant for sustainable micro irrigation.
The CPI leader said that while the GST compensation that was due for Tamil Nadu was not provided, sanctioning Rs 5300 crore for a project in Karnataka was pure discrimination for political reasons. It is to be noted that the BJP is in power in neighbouring Karnataka.
He also said that an announcement of Rs 9000 crores in the micro, small and medium enterprises were very meager as the MSME sector was the backbone of the country’s economy and also on self-reliance.
Mutharasan also said that the budget had neglected the welfare of 93 percent of workers in unorganized sectors like the construction workers and migrant workers.
The CPI leader also said that the budget had deceived the people and had shown a green flag to corporate sector that was close to the union government.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Opposition MPs from Tamil Nadu protested in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament against the Union budget not providing funds for the AIIMS in Madurai.
MPs Manickam Tagore, Vijay Vasanth, Karti Chidambaram, A. Chellakumar, S. Gnanathiraviam, S. Venkitesan, and Kani K. Navas.
The AMMK general secretary and former MLA, TTV Dhinakaran said that the budget did not look into the growing unemployment as also the slow economic growth. He however said that the income tax ceiling exemption was a good measure.
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