AGRA: Upset by the victory of BJP in the assembly election, a 32-year-old man burnt his academic certificates of high school and intermediate in Karhal town area of Mainpuri district. Sheelratan Bodh who runs a computer centre in the area, said, "I was hopeful that Akhilesh Yadav will form the government and I will get a job. But BJP got the mandate."
Bodh claimed that "in the last five years, the Yogi government had failed to generate jobs". "In the next five years, I will be overage and disqualified for government jobs. I was upset by the election results and in frustration burnt my academic certificates on Saturday," he said.
For the past few years, Bodh has been providing service to students applying for jobs and admission at his computer centre located in front of the Karhal block office. He also sells stationery. "In 2011, I met with a road accident in which both my legs were damaged. It took me over four years to recover. Otherwise, I would have secured a government job during the Akhilesh Yadav government from 2012 to ’17," he said.
