By Firstdespatch Desk Jan 06, 2023
Agartala, Jan 6 (FD) Taking a swipe at the speech of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, CPI-M leader and former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar today said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders are once again making false promises of giving jobs in every household to woo the youth voters ahead of the state assembly elections.
Addressing a rally organized by DYFI, the youth wing of Left Party in Khowai district Sarkar said, “Even as the BJP has failed to fulfill its promises made before the 2018 elections that 50,000 jobs would be given every year to the state's youths, the party now made another false promise of generating a job for every family in the state.”
He said, like the 2018 pre-poll promises, the BJP leaders have made new promises which will not materialize, because if they want to create one job for every family in the state, they need to create at least 10 lakh jobs.
“Where will they get the money to pay the salaries of so many employees? These are just promises which would not be implemented”, Sarkar, who is also the leader of the opposition said.
Pointing out at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech delivered on December 18 last Sarkar alleged that
he did not utter a single word for unemployed youths of the state.
He also said that when questions were asked in the assembly sections about the vacant posts the ministers replied that the state government has no record for the vacant posts.
Despite 22 to 23 thousand posts were vacant in several departments during the BJP government’s time they did not say it, Sarkar said.
However, the state Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Sushanta Chowdhury in a recent press conference highlighted that the state government gave over 24,000 jobs since 2018.
Highlighting the issue of 10323 retrenched teachers, Sarkar said that even as 148 of the 10323 the teachers died, the state government has not taken any initiative to address their problem so far.
He also alleged that the BJP-IPFT alliance before coming to power assured that the issue of the 10323 teachers would be viewed from human consideration, but police resorted to lathi charge and sprayed water from water canon to disperse them, when they demanded jobs. FD PD JK