Sajad Parray, EJAC General Secretary and President of Daily Wagers and Casual Labourers, has strongly denounced Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s budget statement concerning daily wagers and casual workers in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing media, Sajad Parray said that the Chief Minister’s speech lacked any clear confirmation or timeline regarding the committee report on regulation and regularisation of workers. He questioned on what grounds regularisation would be done and what concrete benefits would be provided to the employees, stating that no factual clarification related to daily wagers and casual labourers was mentioned during the entire budget speech. He further expressed concern that the committee has never been taken on board in pre-budget meetings and warned that if regularisation is reduced to mere consolidation instead of permanent criteria, workers will be forced to protest on roads. He reminded the government that nearly 4.5 lakh workers and around 61,000 families supported it with the promise of settlement of pending issues, and demanded that all queries be clearly answered during the budget session.