Chandigarh, March 6 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has flayed the Congress government in the saddle for sleeping the issue of unemployment in the state, stating that it had failed to live up to the aspirations of the youth by not fulfilling its poll promises made to them ahead of assuming power more than two years ago.
In a statement issued from the party headquarters in Chandigarh here on Wednesday, Barnala MLA Gurmit Singh Meet Hayer said that the Captain Amarinder Singh had promised to provide a job in every household in the state ahead of the Vidhan Sabha polls. He said that the government had failed to deliver on the promises.
Accusing the government of its backtracking on the promises, Hayer said that Captain had not only betrayed the interests of teeming millions of the youth across the state but had also forced them to fend for themselves and to try their luck on the foreign shores and fall prey to the evil designs of travel agents and face other problems and privation there.
Quoting a news report appearing in a leading Delhi-based English daily, offering an alarming figures on the unemployment rate in India, which it said had swollen to 7.2 per cent in February 2019, the highest since September 2016, and up from 5.9 per cent in February 2018, according to data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), released for press recently, Hayer said the situation was no better in Punjab.
AAP legislature Rupinder Kaur Ruby, on the occasion, said that like their predecessors – the SAD-BJP, the government currently holding the fort in the state had belied hopes of a large number of youth by not redeeming its pledge to providing job in every household in Punjab.
State youth wing chief Manjinder Singh Sidhu expressed his shock and dismay over the studied silence of the government over the zombie of unemployment that had taken youth of the state by storm, forcing them to rue and rant in resignation.
Pointing his finger to the union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Sidhu said that had she been a tad serious about the issue a precious little could have been achieved as her party had an alliance with the Delhi dispensation. What to speak of addressing the issue, she could not had a food processing unit set up in the state during her tenure. He also questioned union minister Vijay Sampla to come clean on the issue.