The Congress today released its youth manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, promising to solve a number of issues related to youth, including unemployment, in its vision document for India's most populous state. "The thought behind this youth manifesto for UP is to explain how we are planning to give the youth jobs," Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said.
"Forget job creation, today the youth has lost jobs. This is because all the work is being given to 2-3 industrialists. So, the Congress has decided after speaking to the youth of UP, as to how we can create jobs for you," Mr Gandhi said while releasing the vision document with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at party headquarters in Delhi.
The vision document for the youth has been made after speaking and interacting with the youth of UP, the party said.
"We have seen the difficulties they face and what their problems are. All political parties just come and promise jobs - 25 lakh jobs, 30 lakh jobs - but no one explains in detail how they will do it. The Congress has done so in this youth manifesto," Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the party's general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, said.
"Today the youth in UP is facing immense difficulty in getting jobs. They are qualified and unemployed. We aim to help them get the employment they want and need," she said.
