In a sharply worded rebuttal, Priyanka Gandhi warned the BJP leader against using North Indians to avoid taking responsibility for the economic slowdown
Union Minister Santosh Gangwar's comment "there was no shortage of job opportunities and companies recruiting in North India had told him they were unable to find qualified candidates" came in for a flak from Congress general secretary in-charge of UP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati. In a sharply worded rebuttal, Priyanka Gandhi warned the BJP leader against using North Indians to avoid taking responsibility for the economic slowdown. She also reminded Gangwar, a Minister of State (Independent) for Labour and Employment that jobs had been lost because of the recession brought about by the wrong policies of BJP-led NDA government.
"Minister, your government is more than five years old. The jobs that were there have been lost due to the economic recession brought by (your) government. Young people are looking to the government to show them something good... the way forward. But you want to escape by insulting the North Indians. It will not work," tweeted Priyanka in Hindi.
When Gangwar attempted to explain that his comments were in a "different context", were also ridiculed by former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati as hilarious.
"Rather than solving the problem of unemployment in the nation, particularly in the northern region, it is shameful that some of them have stated that there is a lack of qualification for which an apology should be issued to the nation," Mayawati also tweeted in Hindi.
Earlier this week Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was criticised on Twitter for appearing to link the crisis in the auto industry, which has seen double-digit falls in sales and fired close to four lakh people to youngsters' preference for Uber and Ola cabs.
The minister's comments came as India's growth rate slipped to 5 percent in June quarter, its slowest in 17 years and in May, India's unemployment rate was pegged at a 45-year-high of 6.1 percent in 2017-18.
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