Unemployment led Modi to power: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/Princeton (US)/ Leaders like Narendra Modi and Donald Trump are being elected all over the world as people are in pain due to unemployment, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said today, but stressed that even the prime minister was not doing enough to solve the key problem facing India.

Gandhi, 47, who is in the US on a two-week-long tour, during his interaction with students at the prestigious Princeton University admitted that Modi-led BJP came to power in India as the people were angry with his Congress party over the issue of unemployment.

Employment is an all-encompassing means to empower, enfranchise and involve Indians in the nation building process, he said. “I think, the central reason why Mr Modi arose and to an extent why Mr Trump came, is the question of jobs in India and in the United States. There’s a large part of our populations that simply do not have jobs and cannot see a future. And, so they are feeling pain. And they have supported these type of leaders,” Gandhi told students.

He said the another problem is that nobody was recognising that unemployment was a problem. “I do not know Trump. I don’t go there. But, certainly our prime minister is not doing enough (in creating jobs),” said the Congress leader.