Union Budget all about 'platitudes and slogans': Left parties

Left parties on Saturday said the Union Budget was all about "platitudes and slogans" and exposed how the government is abdicating all its responsibilities by privatising public assets.

Slamming the Union Budget presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Left parties said it was a "budget of privatisation" and has nothing substantial to alleviate "people's miseries".

"The less you have to say longer will be the speech. The budget has completely failed to address the current economic slowdown. It does not have a road map on how the economy can be turned around," CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said.

He said the Indian economy is bordering on recession and the FM's speech didn't take the advice given by her Chief Economic Advisor of "increasing public expenditure."
He also said the budget was one of "platitudes and slogans."
The All India Forward Bloc said the budget was "an offer to sell India."