NEW DELHI: Attacking the BJP over the issue of unemployment in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said double engine government means “double blow” to the unemployed.
In a post in Hindi on X, Rahul claimed that today every third youth of Uttar Pradesh was suffering from the “disease of unemployment”.
“More than 1.5 lakh government posts are vacant, but graduates, post-graduates and PhD holders have to stand in line even for the posts that require minimum qualification,” the former Congress chief said.
“Double engine government means double blow to the unemployed!” he said.
“First of all, the coming out of recruitment possibilities is a dream and even if the recruitment is being done then the paper gets leaked. If the paper is conducted then the result is not known and even when the result comes after a long wait, one often has to go to the court for ensuring joining,” he said.
Lakhs of students have become overage after waiting for years for recruitment from the Army to Railways and from education to the police, he said.
“A student trapped in this maze of despair is falling victim to depression,” Rahul said. “And being distressed by all this, when he comes out on the streets with his demands, he gets batons from the police,” he claimed.
For a student, a job is not just a source of income, but also a dream to change the life of his family and with the breaking of this dream, the hopes of the entire family are shattered, the Congress leader said.