More or less it is the same type of claim that the UPA Government is making in this Budget. I would like to accuse this Government that they failed to implement the Common Minimum Programme. They betrayed the Common Minimum to implement the Common Minimum Programme and the biggest betrayal is towards the farmers, towards the agricultural labourers and, above all, the women of this country. There is no need to spend even a single pie for the Women's Reservation Bill to be passed. For the last several years it has been pending and now it is there in the Rajya Sabha where it has bee introduced. But I am sure it is not going to come to the Lok Sabha. Before every election, these types of promises are being made. There are other schemes which have been introduced, but they are not successfully implemented. Sir, though the Government agreed that there is some impact of the global recession, they are not ready to accept the seriousness of the impact. Already 12,000 to 15,000 workers and employees have lost their jobs. The steps taken by the Government and the proposed schemes are not going to help in generation of employment. Whatever safety measures that have been taken, they have been taken because of the relentless battle waged by the Left Parties both inside the Parliament and outside against the FDIs and FIIs to be brought into India. But in spite of this, the recession is having its impact on the Indian economy. We could save only the financial and banking institutions because we could prevent the foreign investment in a big scale in our country. Otherwise, our banks would have also collapsed like houses of cards in the way the US and European banks collapsed. Our economy is mostly affected because our exports are more or less stagnated now.
