Opposition terms Union Budget 2026 anti-people, visionless

Opposition parties connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) described the Union Budget 2026 arsenic “anti-poor” and “detached” from the country’s economical realities. Left leaders said it offered nary alleviation to workers, farmers oregon the unemployed portion continuing to prioritise large firm interests. Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said the Finance Minister failed to notation West Bengal adjacent once.

Calling the Budget “faceless, baseless and visionless”, Mr. Banerjee said the Finance Minister, successful her 85-minute speech, did not talk astir West Bengal adjacent once. “Centre views Bengal arsenic Bangladesh... Otherwise wherefore was Bengal not mentioned adjacent once?...We had nary expectations with this Budget. They knew that adjacent if they spent wealth successful Bengal, they wouldn’t win. So, from their position if you spot they person preferred not to walk immoderate wealth connected Bengal,” helium said. West Bengal goes to the polls successful March-April this year.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) wide caput M.A. Baby said the Budget “exposes the unsighted commitment” of the Modi-led authorities to a fistful of firm houses. Mr. Baby said cuts successful fertiliser, food, and petroleum subsidies amounted to a “naked assault” connected workers and peasants, and warned that transfers to States had fallen “by lakhs of crores”, undermining fiscal federalism. The Budget, helium argued, would deepen inequality and worsen the ongoing economical crisis.

Echoing akin criticism, CPI wide caput D. Raja said the Budget was “detached from the concerns of the masses” and marked by “deliberate vagueness.” He said the Finance Minister had avoided giving scheme-wise allocations, calling it an effort to obscure backing cuts. Mr. Raja said the authorities had failed to stimulate request contempt the Economic Survey’s accent connected home consumption. On agriculture and employment, helium said the authorities had ignored demands for a ineligible MSP and continued to propulsion anti-labour policies.

All India Forward Bloc wide caput G. Devarajan described the Budget arsenic a “betrayal of the people, workers and the national spirit”, saying it failed to code basal issues specified arsenic ostentation and unemployment. He besides criticised the authorities for cutting subsidies successful captious sectors.

The CPI(ML) Polit Bureau said successful a connection that the slogan “viksit Bharat” rings hollow arsenic subsidies for nutrient and fertilisers person been cut. It besides underlined the propulsion for private-led healthcare and education, and the absorption connected corporate-friendly projects.