New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday said India is moving forward on the path of progress under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and cited government data to accuse Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of misleading people on the issue of employment and government policies.
The ruling party's accusation comes a day after Gandhi on Wednesday said the country's youth are completely demoralized by unemployment and claimed their future is in "limbo" due to the BJP's "anti-education mentality."
Gandhi's comments came in the wake of a media report that claimed that salaries of engineers who will graduate from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in 2024 have seen a decline due to slowdown in hiring.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, party's national spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam said around 12.5 million jobs were created in the last 10 years of the Modi government and the latest RBI report, recently released, showed the creation of “five million jobs in 2023-24 alone.”
“This is a record in itself around the world. India is the most successful country in the world in job creation thanks to the strong leadership of Prime Minister Modi,” he stated.
“Rahul Gandhi, who insulted Hindus, has started following the religion of falsehood. He and other opposition leaders are misleading the people by spreading lies,” Islam charged.
The BJP leader said Gandhi and other opposition party leaders may be claiming that there is unemployment in the country and jobs are not being created, but the world is not saying so.
Big multilateral institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund say inflation is under control in India and the country ranks first in job creation, he added.
On Sunday, the Congress alleged that the Modi government had accentuated India's "unemployment crisis" with the decimation of job-creating MSMEs through "Tughlakian demonetisation, a rushed GST and increased imports from China".
In a statement, Congress general secretary in charge of communication Jairam Ramesh cited a new report from Citigroup, a global bank, to point out "alarming figures" which he said confirm what Congress claimed during the recent election campaign.
In response, Islam said the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under “an economist” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had created only 2.9 million jobs during its tenure. 10 years.
"The unemployment rate, which was six percent in 2017, has now dropped to 3.2 percent," he added.
Data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) earlier this week indicated that India added nearly 4.7 crore jobs during 2023-24, raising the total number of people employed to 64.33 crore spread across 27 sectors covering the entire economy.
Using the Tornqvist aggregation formula, the RBI said annual employment growth during 2023-24 was six per cent compared to 3.2 per cent in the year-ago period.
Reacting to the RBI report, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said the credibility of India's data is sinking to ever greater levels.
"RBI says jobs grew 6 percent in 2024. The credibility of India's data is sinking to greater depths. Modi's propaganda and misrepresentations destroy the truth!" Yechury had said in a post on X.
He also shared data released by non-governmental economic think tank Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), which showed unemployment was 9.2 percent in June 2024.
The ruling party's accusation comes a day after Gandhi on Wednesday said the country's youth are completely demoralized by unemployment and claimed their future is in "limbo" due to the BJP's "anti-education mentality."
Gandhi's comments came in the wake of a media report that claimed that salaries of engineers who will graduate from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in 2024 have seen a decline due to slowdown in hiring.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, party's national spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam said around 12.5 million jobs were created in the last 10 years of the Modi government and the latest RBI report, recently released, showed the creation of “five million jobs in 2023-24 alone.”
“This is a record in itself around the world. India is the most successful country in the world in job creation thanks to the strong leadership of Prime Minister Modi,” he stated.
“Rahul Gandhi, who insulted Hindus, has started following the religion of falsehood. He and other opposition leaders are misleading the people by spreading lies,” Islam charged.
The BJP leader said Gandhi and other opposition party leaders may be claiming that there is unemployment in the country and jobs are not being created, but the world is not saying so.
Big multilateral institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund say inflation is under control in India and the country ranks first in job creation, he added.
On Sunday, the Congress alleged that the Modi government had accentuated India's "unemployment crisis" with the decimation of job-creating MSMEs through "Tughlakian demonetisation, a rushed GST and increased imports from China".
In a statement, Congress general secretary in charge of communication Jairam Ramesh cited a new report from Citigroup, a global bank, to point out "alarming figures" which he said confirm what Congress claimed during the recent election campaign.
In response, Islam said the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government under “an economist” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had created only 2.9 million jobs during its tenure. 10 years.
"The unemployment rate, which was six percent in 2017, has now dropped to 3.2 percent," he added.
Data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) earlier this week indicated that India added nearly 4.7 crore jobs during 2023-24, raising the total number of people employed to 64.33 crore spread across 27 sectors covering the entire economy.
Using the Tornqvist aggregation formula, the RBI said annual employment growth during 2023-24 was six per cent compared to 3.2 per cent in the year-ago period.
Reacting to the RBI report, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said the credibility of India's data is sinking to ever greater levels.
"RBI says jobs grew 6 percent in 2024. The credibility of India's data is sinking to greater depths. Modi's propaganda and misrepresentations destroy the truth!" Yechury had said in a post on X.
He also shared data released by non-governmental economic think tank Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), which showed unemployment was 9.2 percent in June 2024.
