Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has claimed that India under the Modi government has added only 12.2 lakh formal jobs in the past five years, and said that for the survival of the poor and middle class, the BJP needs to be “thrown out of power”. Mallikarjun Kharge in a tweet said, “India under Modi government has added only 12.2 lakh formal jobs in the past five years! That means an average of just 24,400 jobs per year.” “We are not inventing this figure. It is the Modi government which created this narrative that EPF Regular Contributors = Creation of Formal Jobs! The EPF data corroborates this,” Kharge said.

The BJP promised two crore jobs per year which means 18 crore jobs could have been created in nine years, the Congress president said. “Our youth is staring at a dark future,” he claimed. “No wonder, there is anger and violence on the streets. The BJP has miserably failed to provide Employment! Unimaginable unemployment, painful price rise and orchestrated hate foisted by BJP have resulted in this disaster of a situation,” he said. “For the survival of our poor and middle class, the BJP needs to be thrown out of power. India has had enough,” Kharge said.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)