CHANDIGARH: Asking the young voters of Himachal Pradesh to be sceptic of the Aam Aadmi Party’s election promise of Rs 3,000 monthly unemployment allowance and 6 lakh government jobs, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has asked Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann if the youth in his state had received any allowance and work.
In a statement issued here, SAD senior member Bikram Singh Majithia said that: “The lies of Delhi that were brought to Punjab are now being taken to Himachal Pradesh. The AAP government in Delhi has not paid even a rupee as unemployment allowance in eight years. It has ditched Punjab also and now it’s fooling the young voters of the hill state. If not, let Mann specify how many of the youth had received government jobs in the first six months of his tenure.”
Accusing the AAP government of not even filling the old vacancies in the government offices, he claimed that it was rather abolishing many posts, if not extending the probation period to three years, during which the employee gets only a fraction of the pay. “Even those jobs can be counted on the fingers,” Majithia claimed, adding that Delhi’s AAP government had a similar track record of creating a “measly 3,246 government jobs in 7 years”, so how will it deliver 6 lakh government jobs in Himachal Pradesh.
