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Stop making 'jumla' of jobless: Sena to Modi
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SME Times News Bureau | 07 Jan, 2019
Stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claims of creating more jobs
have been "proved completely hollow" by the Centre for Monitoring of
Indian Economy (CMIE), the Shiv Sena on Monday asked him to stop making a
'jumla' (joke) of the jobless millions in the country.
Referring
to Modi's statement in an interview last week that seven million jobs
were created in the organised sector and many more in the unorganised
sectors, the Sena said the CMIE's latest figures have punctured the
Prime Minister's claims.
"Last year, nearly 11 million people,
mostly workers, lost their jobs with the rural areas taking the biggest
brunt. From these 11 million, nearly 6.50 million are women," the Sena
said in editorials in the party mouthpieces 'Saamana' and 'Dopahar Ka
Saamana'.
Forget creating new employment opportunities, but even
those who were gainfully employed have lost their jobs, the Sena said,
adding that till December 2018 39.70 crore workers and employees were
registered. But this fell by nearly 11 million over the previous year,
indicating job losses.
"When the Prime Minister wants to claim
credit for creating seven million new jobs, he must also accept
responsibility for the 11 million jobs lost. What happened to your
promise of 'jobs for all'? It was just beating drums and now it has been
shattered by CMIE revelations," the Sena said.
Not only are
urban centres reeling under unemployment, but 9.1 million jobs were axed
even in the rural areas in 2018, said the Sena, a key ally of the
ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
"Modi always speaks of 'Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao', but in his own state (Gujarat), 6.50 million women
have lost jobs besides 2.30 million in cities last year. The PM hoists
balloons of job creations, while his senior minister Nitin Gadkari says
its not possible to give jobs to all, and BJP chief Amit Shah urges
people to 'fry bhajias' for a living," the Sena said.
It rued
that a sensitive and serious matter like employment has been made a
'football match' in the past four years and accused the BJP of making
false assurances of creating 2 crore jobs. "But the BJP's claims have
proved fake and its promises remain unfulfilled."
Asking Modi not
to make a cruel joke of unemployed millions, the Sena warned him not to
forget "that the very same hopeful hands which catapulted you to power
with a majority ... can bring you down".
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