New Delhi [India], April 7 (HBTV): Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge has said youth unemployment in India has tripled since 2014 and while labor force is high there is zero growth in employment.      

Kharge said on Sunday that the biggest issue in the Lok Sabha elections is unemployment imposed by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP).  Further, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guarantee to provide two crore jobs reverberates as a bad dream in the hearts of Indian youth.

In a long post on his X account, the Congress chief said the biggest issue in these Lok Sabha elections is Unemployment, imposed by the BJP. Indian youths are struggling to find jobs, and India is staring at a demographic nightmare. 

‘Take the case of India's premier institutes IITs and IIMs across 12 IITs. Around 30% of our students are not getting regular placements. Only 20% of 21 IIMs could complete the summer placements so far. If this is the situation in IITs and IIMs, then one can imagine how the BJP has destroyed the future of our youth across the country,’ Kharge wrote. 

‘The rate of youth unemployment under the Modi government has tripled since 2014. The International Labour Organization's recent India employment report showed that each year, India adds around 70-80 lakh youths to the labor force but between 2012 and 2019, there was almost zero growth in employment — just 0.01%!’ he stated.    

Narendra Modi’s ‘guarantee' about providing two crore jobs reverberates as a bad dream in the hearts and minds of Indian youths, the Congress leader said.  

‘Any diploma or degree holder below the age of 25, will now have a legal right to demand employment and shall be paid at least INR 1 lakh per year. This would remove the barriers that separate work and learning, thereby opening fresh avenues for career growth,' the Congress president said. 

Kharge on Saturday said his party does not make false promises unlike Narendra Modi. 

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