BJP failed to deliver on job creation, says Congress

PANAJI: The unemployment problem today is the root cause for many crimes across the state and country, All India Congress Committee secretary A Chellakumar said on Tuesday, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised 10 crore jobs but had not delivered.

He was launching the Congress’ Jan Sampark Abhiyan. “It is a unique program,” he said, adding that Congress workers would reach out to all households in the state within a month.

Leader of opposition, Chandrakant Kavalekar, said the party will expose the misdeeds of the BJP at the Centre and the state in their door-to-door campaign. He alleged that the party was misleading the people.

GPCC president Girish Chodankar said the BJP has failed on many fronts and lied to people and indulged in corruption in the name of development. “For 11 months, they failed to get an appointment with the PM to discuss the mining issue. Forget about handling the issue, they have not been able to secure an appointment,” he said.

Instead of directly addressing the mining issue the party has mishandled it, Chellakumar said, adding that the government has also failed in curbing the drug menace, and wasted money on tiles and painting in the name of Smart City Imagine Panaji.

During the door-to-door visits, the party will circulate pamphlets with the “misdeeds of the BJP government at the Centre and its seven years in the state” which include mining ban, formalin in fish, creation of new PDAs, regional plan, investment promotion board, medium of instruction, casinos, CRZ notification, coal handling, nationalisation of rivers, stoppage of social schemes, misuse of police machinery, illegal renewal of 88 mining leases, economic and financial burden on the state and the flip-flop on the Mhadei dispute. Congress will also highlight issues such as drugs, no proper tourism policy, law and order at its worst, increase in prices of Form I & XIV.