Modi should stop wasting nation's time, give jobs to youth as promised: Rahul Gandhi

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi fired a fresh salvo at the NDA government today.

Rahul, who is on a three-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should stop wasting time of the countrymen and start giving employment to youth as promised.

Rahul also lashed out at the government for failing to create jobs and said in India everyday 30,000 people seek employment.

"And you know out of those 30,000 how many people get jobs. Only 400," he said.

Earlier today, Gandhi came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government saying that it was recklessly implementing programmes initiated by the UPA government.

He added that programmes like the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was causing distress among common man.

Gandhi said that PM  Modi was only changing the nomenclature of Congress-led UPA schemes and programmes and running them.

While addressing a farmers' rally Rahul said recollected how PM Modi had downplayed the rural job scheme MGNREGA which was initiated by the Congress.

"But Modi realised later what the MGNREGA meant for the common man and he began praising it. The Congress initiates programmes after consulting common people, taking their suggestions," said Rahul.

MODI DOES NOT CONSULT ANYBODY

"But the BJP people don't do that. Modi doesn't consult anybody. For example the Swachhta scheme. He suddenly thinks that India should be cleaned and without asking anyone will order everyone to take a broom and clean India," he said.

The Congress leader said the GST was also a Congress initiative and the party-led government had come up with the tax reform after consulting people, including small traders and farmers.

"They told us that it was good to replace several taxes with one tax but there should not be any increase in taxes. We promised them that there will be a maximum tax of 18 per cent under the GST. But the BJP government created many slabs with the maximum of 28 per cent and then every state has its own GST."

WRONG IMPLEMENTATION OF GST CAUSING TROUBLE

He said the "wrong implementation" of the GST has caused several hardships to small traders and narrated how a shopkeeper, who also sells a mixture of dry fruits in small packets, told him he was in a quandary.

"The shopkeeper was confused. In the packet of the mixture, one item carried a different GST slab and the other carried a different one."

He said the BJP government had not understood the spirit behind the GST and implemented it "hastily and recklessly".

With inputs from agencies