KEJRIWAL OFFERS JOBLESS AID OF ₹5,000 IF PARTY WINS U’KHAND
HALDWANI: Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised an unemployment allowance of ₹5,000 a month and an 80% reservation in government job for the people of the state if his party is voted to power in the next assembly elections.
“An online job portal will be launched on the lines of Delhi. It will contain data on both the jobs provided and those who get jobs. When such a portal was started in Delhi, more than 1 million people got employment,” Kejriwal said.
The state is scheduled to go to polls early next year.
HALDWANI: Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised jobs for all in Uttarakhand and a new ministry that will specifically look after this if his party forms the next government in the state. He also promised a monthly income support of ₹5,000 for the unemployed youth till they land jobs.
Kejriwal, who was on a daylong visit to Haldwani in Nainital, said his party will launch a scheme called Har Ghar Rozgar and provide 100,000 government jobs within six months of being elected to office. Of these, he said, 80% will be reserved for those domiciled in Uttarakhand.
“An online job portal will be launched on the lines of Delhi. It will contain data on both the jobs provided and those who get jobs. When such a portal was started in Delhi, more than 1 million people got employment”, Kejriwal said.
The Delhi CM also promised the creation of a ministry of employment and migration affairs in the state. “This separate department will make effective policies only for employment generation and checking of migration from the hill state,” he said.
Taking a dig at the frequent change of chief ministers in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled state in the last few months, the AAP national con
venor said: “If the people vote for AAP, they will get a CM who will give employment for five years.”
On the question of the feasibility of providing free power when the economic condition of Uttarakhand was weak, he said, “The government should have the will power. And we showed it by giving free electricity in New Delhi.”
Kejriwal also said that there were good people in many parties, including the BJP and the Congress, who were feeling suffocated. “Such good people are welcome in AAP, ‘’ he said.
Later, Kejriwal took out a roadshow and also held a public meeting at Ramlila Maidan in Haldwani.
This is Kejriwal’s third visit to the hill state this year. With less than a year left for the state assembly elections, the AAP is aggressively stepping up its poll preparations. Over the last eight to nine months, it has been attacking the ruling BJP on various issues like alleged corruption, unemployment, and health infrastructure.
Commenting on AAP’s Tiranga Yatra across Uttarakhand, Union minister of state (MoS) for defence Ajay Bhatt told news agency ANI: “Parties are coming to Uttarakhand and speaking their minds but let me tell this that the people there have made up their minds. They will give an opportunity to the Bharatiya Janata Party to serve the people again in the 2022 elections and the party will win with a huge majority.” Referring to the AAP’s promises of providing free water and electricity, Bhatt said the BJP is providing ration, Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and ventilators free of cost to the people of the state.