They charged the government with providing exemptions and stimulus only to the corporates and ignoring the labourers.

The Left party members said a meeting with all the trade unions should be called for this purpose.

Earlier, the minister said: 'The impact of the global slowdown on the Indian economy has been felt since mid-2008. To counter the negative fallout of the global slowdown, the government of India has provided three focussed fiscal stimulus packages.'

Kharge said the packages were 'in the form of tax relief and increased expenditure on public projects, while the Reserve Bank of India has taken a number of monetary easing and liquidity enhancing steps in order to boost the domestic demand'.

The minister argued that these measures had helped keep the Indian economy 'on the growth trajectory, though at a moderate level as compared to the performance in the recent past'.