Bihar Assembly Election 2020: Tejashwi Yadav has urged the people to support the initiative.
Patna:
RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav urged people to light diyas, candles and lanterns on terraces, balconies or outside their homes for nine minutes starting at 9 p.m. Wednesday to mark their protest against the privatization of state establishments. and the “inability of the Bihar government”. “to give jobs to young people.
The RJD leader has urged party leaders and workers to extend their support for the initiative of self-help groups and unemployed youth.
“I, together with my mother Rabri Devi, will light a lantern for nine minutes at 9 pm tonight on the terrace of my house in support of unemployed young people who express their anger against unemployment and the self-help groups that oppose privatization of government establishments, “he tweeted Wednesday morning.
The party has focused on young people ahead of the next assembly elections in the state.
Mr. Yadav had launched the portal “www.berozgarihatao.co.in” and a toll-free number on September 5 to prepare a database of unemployed youth, to whom he promised jobs if his party comes to power in the state.
The ruler JD (U), on the other hand, has questioned the importance of the lantern (RJD’s symbol of choice) at a time when “all households in Bihar are connected to the power supply.”
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, while addressing a rally via his party’s new digital platform ” jdulive.com ” on September 7, had said that his government had already connected all homes in the country with electricity. been in October 2018.
Kumar, in a hit to the RJD, said that people are being supplied with electricity for more than 22 hours every day, marking the end of the “era of flashlights.”
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