Left rally against Budget today

Left rally against Budget today
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI, MARCH 2: Left parties have organised nationwide protest demonstrations tomorrow against the ``anti-labour and anti-farmer'' general Budget.

Along with affiliated trade unions, they will march to government offices across the country on March 29, according to CPI(M) MP Rupchand Pal.

He told reporters that the changes proposed in the labour laws, especially the ones relating to exit policy and downsizing of government, would hit the working class.

He complaned that the man on the street would be burdened by the decrease in interest rates on savings, though at the same time cars and other luxury items had been made cheaper. The Budget would also increase the sufferings of pensioners and small scale industries, he added. ``The Government should first downsize the Union Cabinet that has so many ministers and attendant staff,'' he said.

Earlier, Left trade union workers, who had organised a protest march to Parliament, were stopped by the police on the way.

Addressing the workers, TU leaders alleged the Budget had exposed the Centre's gameplan to hand over the economy to MNCs and enslave the working class by scuttling labour laws.