Budget will favour big corporates and industries, says CPI

Going by the functioning of the BJP government at the Centre, one could expect the Budget to benefit only corporates and big industrial houses instead of the common man, CPI National Secretary D Raja said here today.
"It is evident that the interim Budget totally favoured corporate houses by providing concessions worth crores of rupees and government will repeat similar concessions in this Budget also," he told reporters here.
"However, let us wait and see how the Budget is going to be," Raja, here to participate in the 23rd state conference of the party, which began here today, said.
Stating that Left parties have taken up the issue of the ordinance of Land Acquisition, which gained momentum with the agitation by Anna Hazare, he said it was better that the government withdrew it without taking it as a prestige issue.

Moreover, it would be undemocratic to get it passed in the joint session of Parliament as Government has to convene them to pass almost all ordinances, which would amount to ridiculing the Constitution and Parliamentary process, he said.
Asked about the merger of splinter groups of Communist parties, Raja said that instead of the merger, the historic necessity for them is to fight for a common cause together.
"Only Left unity can provide an alternate to BJP and Congress at present and the party will work to achieve this."
Raja said CPI's All India Conference scheduled in Puducherry from March 28 would discuss the political situation in the country and the attempt to 'divide' the people on religious and communal lines, after BJP came to power.