NEW DELHI:
Congress on Saturday slammed the
Modi government for putting a freeze on filling existing vacancies and stopping fresh recruitments in
government jobs and said that instead of stepping up to its duty to safeguard jobs, the government was hurting the interests of Indian youth through this “anti-people measure”.
Rahul Gandhi targeted the Modi government and said that the government was only using
coronavirus as an excuse to promote friends and free government
offices of permanent staff.
“Modi’s government’s thinking — minimum govt, maximum privatisation… Covid is just an excuse, government offices have to be made permanent ‘staff-free’, steal futures of youth, help ‘friends’ get ahead,” he tweeted in Hindi.