On Wednesday, the IYC declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday to be “National Unemployment Day” and held a symbolic demonstration, claiming that the nation’s unemployment rate is at its highest point in fifty years.
According to an official statement from the Indian young Congress (IYC), Congress workers put up tea and pakora stands at their office on Raisina Road and decorated it with black balloons to draw attention to the predicament of educated young who are forced into menial labour since there aren’t enough job possibilities.
“Unemployment is at its highest level in fifty years today. We restate today that Modi is ‘vote chor’ and ‘naukri chor’ because Rahul Gandhi has demonstrated that he is becoming prime minister by stealing votes,” IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib claimed during the demonstration.
He went on to say, “This is the voice of the country’s youth, and we will not sit silent until they get employment.” In contrast, Chib asserted that “24 crore applications have been received while unemployment is at a record high.” Modi had promised two crore jobs annually, which should have translated into 22 crore jobs by now.
Along with supporting industrialists, he accused the administration of “being concerned only about the employment of Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah.” The leader of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) claimed that the Modi government had donated 1,050 acres of land for “just one rupee,” raising doubts about whether this was the vision of “new India.”
Hevran Singh Kansana, national general secretary Khushboo Sharma, national secretary Hari Krishna, and Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress president Akshay Lakra joined the demonstration along with a number of other workers.