Only 12.2 lakh formal jobs added in five years: Mallikarjun Kharge lashes out at BJP

Congress president Mallikarjun. Pic/PTI

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday claimed that India under the Modi government has added only 12.2 lakh formal jobs in the past five years, and said that for the survival of the poor and middle class, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) needs to be "thrown out of power".

Mallikarjun Kharge charged that the BJP has "miserably failed" to provide employment.

"India under Modi Govt has added ONLY 12.2 Lakh Formal Jobs in past 5 years! That means an average of JUST 24,400 Jobs per year!" he said in a tweet.

"We are not inventing this figure. It is the Modi government which created this narrative that EPF Regular Contributors = Creation of Formal Jobs! The EPF data corroborates this," Kharge said.
The BJP promised two crore jobs per year which means 18 crore jobs could have been created in nine years, the Congress president said.

"Our youth is staring at a dark future," he claimed.

"No wonder, there is anger and violence on the streets. The BJP has miserably failed to provide Employment! Unimaginable unemployment, painful price rise and orchestrated hate foisted by BJP has resulted in this DISASTER of a situation," he said in his long Twitter post.

"For the survival of our poor and middle class, the BJP needs to be thrown out of power. India has had enough," Kharge said.

The Congress has been attacking the government over its handling of the economy and alleging that it has failed to generate employment.

Meanwhile, After days of disruption in Parliament over the Manipur issue, the government and the Opposition on Thursday made attempts to break the deadlock and are discussing a middle path to find a solution.

The Parliament has witnessed 11 days of disruptions with the Opposition demanding a discussion on the Manipur violence with a statement from the prime minister in both houses.

With the stalemate in Parliament over Manipur persisting, Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Pralhad Joshi reached out to Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and other Opposition leaders to break the logjam in the Rajya Sabha.

The over half-an-hour meeting between the opposition parties and the government, however, remained inconclusive.

Both the government and the Opposition are hopful of a resolution on the Manipur issue with a debate likely to take place in the Upper House next week.

(With inputs from PTI)