BJP misleading people on its promise of 2-cr jobs: Rahul

Youngsters asking Modi govt if he has any plan of employment

The Congress on Tuesday attacked Narendra Modi government’s claim on job creation. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of “misleading” people on its promise of providing 2-crore jobs every year and said the youth across the country are asking if the Bjp-led government lied to them.

Targeting the BJP government on the issue of unemployment, Gandhi said that the youth have to change their destiny themselves by breaking the web of illusion created by the BJP. He assured that the Congress has resolved to undertake an employment revolution through “Yuva Nyay”, a promise made to the youth ahead of ensuring Lok Sabha elections.

In a post on X, Gandhi said, “Modi ji, did you have any plans for employment? This question is on the lips of every youth today. In every street and village, the BJP people are being asked — why was the lie told about providing 2-crore jobs every year,” he asked.

“The Congress has resolved to undertake an employment revolution under Yuva Nyay. Our guarantee is that as soon as we come into government, we will fill 30 lakh government posts, every educated youth will be given a job worth `1 lakh per year under the ‘Pehli Naukri Pakki’ scheme and we will get rid of paper leaks by making a law,” the Congress leader also said. The Congress has been attacking the BJP on the unemployment issue and intends to make it a campaign issue. Mean while, Congress also attacked the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala, accusing it of using the CAA for electoral gains, and saying the Left party is trying to alienate Muslim voters from the Congress on the “lie” that the grand old party did not oppose the controversial law. Separately, Congress leaders asserted that if the I.N.D.I.A. front, of which the Left parties are a part, comes to power, the legislation will be “thrown in the dustbin”.

MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor said that the Left front in Kerala is spreading “lies” and “distorting” the facts about the grand old party’s role in opposing the CAA, right from its introduction as a bill in Parliament.

THE BJP NAMES

three more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, dropping all its sitting

MPS, including union minister Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and MPS Manoj Rajoria and Jaskaur Meena.

EC DIRECTS

the chief electoral officer of Karnataka to take “immediate appropriate action” on a complaint filed by JD (S) president H.D. Deve Gowda that Congress MP D K Suresh was allegedly planning distribution of freebies and the state poll machinery failed to take swift action.

SENIOR CONGRESS LEADERS A.K. ANTONY

with political career, spanning more than five decades to face the ignominy of his son fighting on a BJP ticket from the Pathanamthitta constituency.