The Left has strongly criticised the import policy and said that the policy was against everything that the country stood for.The CPI(M) politburo, in a statement, said that the policy was meant to help the US interests and multinationals and that the working class as well as the middle class and small entrepreneurs would be affected.The industrialisation of the country would also receive a setback, it said.

And anyway, the party said, despite the hype created by the so-called liberalisation programmes of the government, the economy had not received any boost in any area or sector, thereby clearly indicating the fallacies of any argument in favour of such policies.