New Delhi: The country’s unemployment rate hit a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) periodic labour report, which has not been released but was leaked to a newspaper on the eve of the Narendra Modi government’s final, interim Budget, claimed, setting off a political slugfest.
The leaked report further said that the unemployment rate was higher in urban areas (7.8 per cent) as compared to 5.3 per cent in overall rural areas.
Comparing the Prime Minister with Hitler, Mr Gandhi tweeted: “NoMo Jobs! The fuhrer promised us 2 cr jobs a year. 5 years later, his leaked job creation report card reveals a national disaster. Unemployment is at its highest in 45 yrs. 6.5 cr youth are jobless in 2017-18 alone. Time for NoMo2Go”.
The BJP tweeted back saying that Mr Gandhi had inherited Mussolini’s short-sightedness. “It’s clear that he has inherited Mussolini’s short-sightedness and has myopic understanding of issues. EPFO’s real data shows sharp increase in jobs, created in just the last 15 months. Only a man who hasn’t ever held a proper job and is totally jobless can peddle such #FakeNews!”
In a Facebook post in Hindi, the Congress chief said,”truth cannot be hidden or buried, it is like a seed, and it doesn't take long for it to show the mirror to the one who has buried it”.
