New Delhi:
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi big 10 crore job promise during his five-year rule, Maharashtra BJP lawmaker Ashish Deshmukh on Saturday took on his own party’s government, saying that the saffron party governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra have failed to provide jobs to the youth.
Deshmukh claimed that the BJP had promised to create two crore jobs per year, but only 2.2 lakh jobs were generated in the country in the last four years, which is too far from the promise made during the election campaign in 2014.
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The BJP leader also questioned the Maharashtra government’s claim that over 50,000 youths have got jobs in MIHAN (Multi-modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur) and the surrounding industrial area.
No new factory is seen in the area, nor is there any service industry, he said.
Initiatives such as Make in India, Magnetic Maharashtra (the BJP-led state government’s investment summit), Start-up India and Skill India have failed to create jobs, Deshmukh alleged.
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Deshmukh has been critical of his party for long, especially on the issue of separate statehood for Vidarbha which he supports. BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha and AAP leader Sanjay Singh were also present at the program.
(With PTI Inputs)
