TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ The Shiv Sena has hit out at the Modi government saying the ruling BJP had given a pre-poll promise of creating one crore jobs every year, but in reality the number of unemployed people was growing by the day. Referring to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s swipe at the centre over union minister Nitin Gadkari’s “where are the jobs” remark, the Shiv Sena said the opposition party should not forget that the unemployment scenario during its rule was equally deplorable.
“There was news about one lakh fresh jobs being created through the Ayushman Bharat (national health protection) scheme. But there was another report which said 24 lakh government posts are lying vacant and three crore youths are jobless. These two reports highlight the hard reality of the unemployment situation in the country,” the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece “Saamana”.
“There is nothing new in these reports, but they show that nothing has changed during the rule of those who had promised to create one crore jobs every year. The moves like demonetisation and roll-out of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) further affected the revenue of lakhs of people in the last two years,” it added.
