AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged failure to keep up his promise of providing one crore jobs to youth and said that the unemployment rate is highest in the country in the last eight years.
“The Modi government has generated less than one lakh jobs in 2016. During the poll campaign in 2014, Mr. Modi promised to provide one crore jobs to the youth in five years,” Mr. Gandhi alleged, while stating that the Siddaramaiah government had provided jobs to 30,000 youths in the last one year. Addressing a public meeting here, Mr. Gandhi mocked at Mr. Modi for limiting his Independence Day speech to just 57 minutes, his shortest in four years. “Mr. Modi is reducing the duration of his speeches, as he has no issues to talk about now. He will deliver his last Independence Day speech next year in 15 minutes.” Replying to BJP president Amit Shah’s statement that he would seek account of the use of Central funds by the State, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wondered “who Mr. Shah is to ask for accounts? The Centre has done no favour by releasing funds to the State. It’s the Centre’s duty to release funds to the State,” he said.
