Yogendra Yadav criticised the interim budget for no mention of unemployment. "I tried to listen to the speech very carefully. Did you hear the word unemployment in the speech? I did not. When I travel, ask people, and look at surveys, it is the one thing (unemployment) that comes up at the top by every possible measure. I fully understand this is an interim budget and I appreciate no major policy announcements have been made. But the one thing that needed a kind of interim relief was the issue of employment," said Yogendra Yadav.