‘False guarantee’: Congress attacks AAP over poll promise to provide jobs to youth in Uttarakhand

New Delhi: In Uttarakhand, the Congress has targeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s promise to provide jobs to one lakh youth in 6 months. Congress Delhi unit president Anil Kumar has termed Arvind Kejriwal’s promise as a ‘false guarantee’. He claimed that in the last seven years, only 440 people have got jobs in the national capital.

Kejriwal had said on Sunday that if his party comes to power after the upcoming assembly elections, concrete steps will be taken to stop the migration from Uttarakhand, unemployment allowance will be given to the unemployed and 80 per cent reservation to the youth of the state. in local jobs.

Kejriwal had made six promises, including giving an unemployment allowance of Rs 5,000 per month to one unemployed person from each family, when his party came to power.

84 percent posts vacant in Delhi

In a statement issued by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Anil Kumar, it has been said, ’84 percent posts are vacant in the employment department. In the last seven years, only 440 people have got jobs and Arvind Kejriwal is promising one lakh jobs out of six in Uttarakhand. months.”

“Arvind has given a six-point false guarantee to the people of Devbhoomi Uttarakhand, as he has given to the people of Delhi,” Kumar said. The Congress leader said that the Delhi government should give unemployment allowance of Rs 7,000 per month to the 13 lakh youth registered on the government portal.

“Kejriwal has promised jobs to the people of Uttarakhand in six months, just as he had promised eight lakh jobs to the people of Delhi in five years,” Kumar said. “But after coming to power, only 440 youths have got jobs in Delhi while 84 per cent posts are vacant,” he said.

Kejriwal should give unemployment allowance of Rs 7,000 per month to 13 lakh youth registered on the government portal.

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