Tejashwi Yadav reiterated his promise of 10 lakh of jobs and better health infrastructure.
Patna (Bihar):
Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, who has made unemployment in Bihar a big issue in polls, released the party’s election manifesto today reiterating his promise of 10 lakh jobs and better health infrastructure.
He also attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party for trying to “mislead the people”.
“Our promise of 10 lakh of government jobs is genuine. We could also have made false promises of 50 lakh of jobs like the BJP government and the twin-engine government,” Yadav said of the promise of the 19 BJP poll. lakh of jobs in Bihar.
The promise was made in the BJP poll manifesto a day after Senior Deputy Minister Sushil Kumar Modi questioned how the Grand Alliance’s top ministerial candidate plans to fund 10 lakh of jobs from Bihar’s budget.
“The government of Bihar can easily provide 4 lakhs of jobs … The state has a budget of Rs 2.13 lakh crore, of which only 60% has been spent. Nitish Kumar has been unable to spend 40 The remaining%, which is Rs 80,000 crore, “said the opposition leader.
“We want to improve Bihar. For this, we have to compete with the national employment average … This is our promise of change. It is a vote. We will make it happen. I repeat, Nitish Kumar cannot manage Bihar. He is tired,” he said Yadav, who has been targeting the BJP-backed chief minister Nitish Kumar for issues of unemployment, pandemic mismanagement and indifference towards migrants.
Yadav’s promise of 10 lakh government jobs, which has earned him the most applause at his demonstrations from hundreds of people, has been ridiculed by the BJP and three-time Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had taken a hit asking if Mr. “jail” money – a reference to the jailed RJD boss and his father Lalu Prasad Yadav – to fund these works.
Bihar votes for a new government in three phases starting on October 28 and the results are due to be presented on November 10.
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