Puri slams Kharge for targeting Modi
With campaigns for Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections gathering steam, the Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to take on Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge who on Saturday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guarantees as a “cruel joke on 140 crore Indians”. The PM yesterday cautioned voters against Congress approach of fake guarantees after Kharge admonished state units against biting more than they could chew.
Advisers selling lies to cong chief
The Congress chief is clearly looking at wrong places and getting fake data, or maybe, is just too preoccupied
with trying to hold his imploding party together. He buys whatever lies his advisers sell to him.
Hardeep Singh Puri, Petroleum minister
In a series of X posts, Kharge asked the PM what happened to his past poll promises. “What about two crore jobs a year, what about inflation, what about achhe din, Viksit Bharat and naa khaunga naa khaaney doonga (will neither indulge in corrpution nor condone it)? What about main desh nahi jhukne doonga (I will not let anyone undermine national security),” the Congress chief questioned.
Responding to Kharge, Puri said Congress party’s shoot and scoot brand of social media policy based on lies, fabricated figures and fake data was back in action.
“Even their senior most leaders do not check facts before going public with their delusional opinions. Under PM Modi, employment has increased by nearly 36%, adding around 170 million jobs between 2016-17 and 2022-23,” said Puri.
Answering Kharge without naming him, Puri said India’s economic trajectory demonstrated sustained job creation across key sectors.
“We are on our way to becoming the world’s third largest economy very soon from the 11th spot their famed economists and policies left us in 2014. While providing direct and indirect employment opportunities to our youth India’s GDP grew at an average rate of over 6.5 per cent during the same period,” the minister added.
He said Indian labour market indicators showed the unemployment rate had declined to 3.2% in 2022-23.
“Agriculture remains dominant, employing over 45 per cent of the workforce, with a gradual shift toward manufacturing and services.
According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey, youth (age 15-29 years) unemployment rate has declined from 17.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 10 per cent in 2022-23.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation enrollment has reached 131.5 lakh in 2024 while the gig economy workforce is expected to grow to 2.35 crore by 2029-30,” the minister said on X.
He said Kharge seemed to be unaware that the Worker Population Ratio had increased by almost 26 per cent between 2017-2023.
“The Congress chief is clearly looking at all the wrong places and getting fake data, or maybe, is just too preoccupied with trying to hold his imploding party together and buys whatever lies his advisors sell to him; or he is just too fixated with the ‘unemployment’ of his party’s travelling Shehzada,” the minister added as the BJP vowed to make “non-fulfillment of poll time guarantees by the Congress” a key election issue in upcoming elections.
Earlier today, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said while the BJP believed in creating and then distributing wealth among the poor, the Congress perpetrated politics of corruption and of destruction of wealth.
