“Those Eating Rs. 30,000 Pizzas…”: Giriraj Singh’s swipe at Rahul

TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/ Stating that his ministry had created four crore jobs, Union Minister of State for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh today took a swipe at the Congress, saying “those who eat pizzas worth Rs. 30,000 cannot see a Rs. 12,000 job”.

“I want to show how a job is created to those who cannot see one. Those who have not seen poverty and go to learn about it at Kalavati’s house in the darkness of night, say there are no jobs,” he said, apparently referring to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

“We have given jobs to four crore people. It is another thing that 70 per cent of those jobs are of under Rs. 12,000 (monthly salary). The world developed on the strength of skills. We were only under five per cent skilled. It was (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi, who, for the first time, talked about skill-training,” Mr Singh said.

“Those who eat pizzas worth Rs. 30,000 will not be able to see a job worth Rs. 12,000. They can only see pakora and shoe-makers but cannot see employment,” he added. Together with loans given under the MUDRA scheme, his ministry had provided jobs to 10 crore people, the BJP leader claimed. “I am not counting the textiles ministry and handicraft…if they (UPA) made 11 lakh people entrepreneurs between 2010 and 2014, then we have made 16 lakh people entrepreneurs,” he said.