Mohammed Azharuddin, former cricketer and former MP, came down heavily on ‘moral policing’ in the State and said “hypocritical moral policing is BJP’s trademark”.
“Instead of building the future, the BJP is policing the future of the young,” he said, addressing presspersons here on Thursday.
“It is unfortunate that the BJP and their uncontrolled fringe groups want to control what the young will wear, whom they will love, what they will eat, what they can see, where they can go, what they should celebrate, and every facet of independent exercise of youthful aspirations.Rather than shaping the future, the BJP is strangulating the voices and caging the aspirations of the youth. We call upon the Prime Minister and BJP to embark upon an “apology campaign” rather than an election campaign,” he said.
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Job creation
Rajeev Satav, All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in charge of Gujarat, said the Congress government in Karnataka had created 15 lakh jobs in the past five years. While in Karnataka the youth speak about increase in packages and pay scale, in BJP ruled states such as Madhya Pradesh, Maharasthra, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana thousands of highly qualified doctors, engineers and post graduates are daily lining up to seek Class IV and Class V posts. Mr Modi’s Niti Ayog in February this year has itself admitted that India is plagued by unsatisfactory jobs and under-employment,” he said adding all that the BJP has done is deliver “jumla-pops”.
Former Union Minister Jitin Prasada and Priyanka Chaturvedi, national spokesperson and media co-ordinator of the Congress also spoke.
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