Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has been unsparing in his assaults on the Modi authorities (File)
New Delhi:
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi continued his relentless assault on the Narendra Modi authorities Monday evening with a tweet criticising “pointless privatisation… (that) is destroying employment” for the youth of the nation.
Mr Gandhi, who has stepped up his criticism after data closing week confirmed that India’s GDP has contracted by a report 23.9 per cent between April and June, reiterated his notion that unemployment ranges have been linked to the Modi authorities’s drive to privatise PSUs (public sector fashions).
“At current the country is facing many disasters, identical to the Modi authorities, one amongst which is pointless privatisation. The youth want jobs nevertheless the Modi authorities is destroying employment and deposit(ing) capital by privatising PSUs… (to) whose revenue?” Mr Gandhi tweeted.
“(for the) enchancment of just a few ‘mates’… which is Modiji‘s explicit… Stop Privatisation, Save Authorities Jobs,” he added.
आज देश मोदी सरकार-निर्मित कई आपदाएँ झेल रहा है जिनमें से एक है अनावश्यक निजीकरण।
युवा नौकरी चाहते हैं पर मोदी सरकार PSUs का निजीकरण करके रोज़गार व जमा पूँजी नष्ट कर रही है।
फ़ायदा किसका?
बस चंद ‘मित्रों’ का विकास
जो हैं मोदी जी के ख़ास।Stop Privatisation Save Govt Jobs.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 7, 2020
On Saturday Mr Gandhi tweeted a couple of reported freeze on recruitment by the central authorities; he cited a newspaper article referencing an inventory of austerity measures adopted amid the pandemic.
“The Modi authorities’s contemplating is minimum government, maximum privatisation. Covid is just an excuse…,” he tweeted, alleging that the “plan is to free authorities workplaces of all eternal workers, steal the youth’s future and propel his (PM Modi’s) private mates forward”.
The centre subsequently clarified its position; the Ministry of Finance tweeted that the federal authorities spherical referred to inside the report dealt with inside course of and would not impact or curtail recruitment.
Mr Gandhi has beforehand moreover attacked the federal authorities over employment ranges.
Ultimate week he hit out over opinions of 12 crore people being unemployed amid the lockdown and early closing month he said the federal authorities had failed to live up to its promise of jobs for two crore people yearly.
In July he criticised the federal authorities over first steps in the privatisation of Indian Railways, which employs spherical 12 lakh people.
Mr Gandhi has moreover launched motion pictures claiming that demonetisation, the Covid lockdown and the contentious GST are among the many many main causes for the state of affairs of the Indian monetary system.
Yesterday he tweeted a video throughout which he sought to hyperlink the report 23.9 per cent contraction in GDP to the GST regime, which he generally known as the “Gabbar Singh Tax“.
In an earlier video Mr Gandhi linked the GDP shock to demonetisation and tweeted: “PM Modi’s cashless India is actually a mazdoor-kisan-chhota vyapari mukt Bharat (India free of farmers, labourers, small retailers)”.
After the discharge of GDP figures Mr Gandhi tore into the federal authorities, accusing it of repeatedly ignoring warnings from specialists on the extent of the monetary catastrophe.
