UPA could not deliver jobs, Modi doing no better: Rahul
WASHINGTON: Rahul Gandhi has said he believes leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump were elected because of a growing need for jobs, and the Indian leader may face the same backlash as the Congress.
“I think the central reason why Mr Modi arose and to an extent why Mr Trump came, is the question of jobs in India and in the US,” Gandhi told Princeton University students on Tuesday.
“There’s a large part of our populations that simply does not have jobs and can not see a future. And so they are feeling pain. And they have supported these type of leaders,” Gandhi said, adding that Mo di’ s record on job creation was “not good enough”.
“Those same people who were angry with us because we couldn’t deliver those 30,000 jobs, are going to get angry with Mr Modi,” Gandhi said.
“There is anger building up in India right now, we can sense it,” he added. Gandhi has spoken forcefully about the need to create 30,000 jobs a day as the key challenge facing India in his view, and he has emphasised this at most of his interactions during his two-week US tour.