"PM Had Promised 2 Crore Jobs. It's Been 8 Years": A Owaisi In Gujarat
NDTV
AIMIM is contesting 14 seats in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls for which the party announced the names of 14 candidates.
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over unemployment in the country by cracking a joke. He said he met a young man at a hotel who used a joke to explain his situation in life.
"Main jis ladki se shaadi karna chahta hun, usne mujhse aa kar kaha ki 'aapki sarkari naukri kab lagegi, papa ladka dhund rahe hain (The girl with whom I want to get married asked me when will you get a government job? My father is looking for a bridegroom)," Mr Owaisi quoted the man as telling him in a rally on Tuesday.
According to Mr Owaisi, the man told his girlfriend, "Modi sarkar par bharosa mat karo, tum shadi kar lo' (Do not trust the Modi government, you get married)," Mr Owaisi added quoting the man, while taking a jibe at PM Modi over the lack of government jobs in the country.
Hitting out at the "reduced" number of jobs to be provided till 2024, in comparison to those announced during the BJP campaign for the 2014 General Elections, the AIMIM chief said, "PM Modi had promised to give 2 crore jobs in 2014. It's been eight years, now he says 10 lakh jobs will be given till 2024. 16 crore jobs should have been given till now. Now he has reduced it to 10 lakh jobs."
