A third of Uttar Pradesh’s youth are unemployed, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Sunday, claiming that the policies of the BJP’s ‘double engine’ government in the State and Centre have dealt a ‘double blow’ to jobless youths in the country’s most populous State.
“Double engine government means double blow to the unemployed. Today, every third youth in U.P. is suffering from the problem of unemployment. More than 1.5 lakh government posts are vacant, graduates, postgraduates and PhD holders are standing in line even for the posts that require minimum qualification,” Mr. Gandhi said in a post on X, accompanied by a photograph of thousands of candidates jammed into a Kanpur railway station to appear in the U.P. police constable recruitment examination.
“Lakhs of students have become over age after waiting for years for recruitments from the Army to Railways and from education to police. A student trapped in this vicious cycle of despair is falling victim to depression,” added the Congress leader.
