Nowadays BJP and Congress are logging heads with each other. They are trying to take a dig at each other whenever they possibly can. But now things have reached to a whole new phase.
Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram has taken a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of job creation
It has started with a series of tweets this morning. The former Finance Minister told that if selling pakodas is a job, then by keeping that as a logical statement, even begging is a job.
“Let’s count poor or disabled persons who are forced to beg for a living as ’employed’ people”, he said on micro-blogging site.
5. Even selling pakodas is a ‘job’ said PM. By that logic, even begging is a job. Let’s count poor or disabled persons who are forced to beg for a living as ’employed’ people.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) January 28, 2018
This reaction has come after Modi said that in a recently conducted interview, ‘If a person sells ‘pakodas’ and takes home Rs 200 every evening, will it be considered employment or not?’
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The Congress chief blasted the central government for the politics played by them and told that the central government is sitting idle and doing nothing to create enough jobs in the market.
Giving a ‘true’ picture, Chidambaram said, ‘the truth is India is witnessing a three-year spell of modest, but jobless, growth and the government is clueless about how to create jobs.’ ‘Real job creation will be reflected by a robust increase in private investment, private consumption, exports and credit demand. Not happening yet,’ he said.
He also raised concerns about the Mudra loan scheme. ‘Earlier it was claimed that a Mudra loan of Rs 43,000 (average loan size) created at least one new job. Show me one person, who can ‘create’ a new job out of Rs 43,000 investment,’ he tweeted.
The tweets come a day before the government will present the Economic Survey on Monday
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