Cong's Lamba accuses Modi govt of failing to provide jobs to youths

Congress leader Alka Lamba on Wednesday targeted the BJPled government at the Centre over inflation and accused it of failing to provide enough employment opportunities to the countrys youthInflation has broken citizens backs ever since the Prime Minister Narendra Modiled government came to power the All India Congress Committee spokesperson saidIn 2014 the cost of a gas cylinder was Rs 410 which today is Rs 1050 Petrol was Rs 70 which is now over Rs 100 per litre while the price of diesel which was Rs 55 is now over Rs 90 per litre The cost of edible oil and pulses have also risen drasticallyAlso readAK Antonys son quits Congress cites intolerant calls to retract tweet on PMeven curd paneer lassi flour dry soybean peas and puffed rice could not escape the barbaric attack of GST Five per cent GST was imposed on them too Lamba told reporters at a press conference hereShe also accused the Centre of not reducing petrol and diesel prices despite crude oil rates in the international market continuously decreasingIn the past eight years Rs 29 lakh crore have been withdrawn from the public by imposing tax on petroleum products Lamba addedThe Congress leader alleged that the BJP also bluffed farmers on doubling their incomesThe backward Dalit tribal sections of society were not given enough opportunities for progress to cover up all these failures India was pushed into a quagmire of hatred despair and negativity Lamba allegedThe Congress will run the Hath Se Hath Jodo Abhiyan mass dialogue programme across the country from January 26 to give its Bharat Jodo campaign a more comprehensive form she saidIt will be headed by the Congress block committees she addedSpeaking about the Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra Lamba said From Kanyakumari to Kashmir Rahul Gandhi is on a yatra to end the BJP regimes environment of hatred despair and negativity and is uniting IndiaThe 3900kilometre padyatra foot march which started from Kanyakumari on September 7 entered Jammu and Kashmir via last week It will culminate with Gandhi unfurling the national flag in Srinagar on January 30Now the Congress will conduct a mass dialogue programme Hath Se Hath Jodo Abhiyan across the country from January 26 to March 26 to give more comprehensiveness to the Bharat Jodo campaign she saidBy reaching six lakh villages 250 lakh gram panchayats and 10 lakh polling booths Gandhis message and a charge sheet of the Modi governments failures will be delivered to every household under this campaign she addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever