Unemployed youth torch degrees, polish shoes
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 11: Expressing concern over the growing unemployment in the country and particularly in J&K, JKNPP chairman and former minister Harshdev Singh said that the simmering discontent amongst the unemployed educated youth had assumed alarming proportions.
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Through a serious of protests organized on regular basis, the unemployed and under employed youth were expressing their anger against the BJP Government which had failed to fulfil their genuine aspirations despite its tall slogans of youth empowerment, asserted Singh.
Reminding the BJP of its loud pronouncements and lofty promises during elections of providing two crore jobs per year with job security for at least one member of each family, Singh said that the educated youth was feeling cheated and betrayed. He said that the growing unrest amongst the younger generation was a warning signal for the BJP regime which needed to fulfil its promises to youth who voted heavily in its favour on the strength of its slogans.
Singh made this statement during a protest dharna organized by the Panthers Party to support the unemployed youth under its slogan of “ Rozgar Ka Vaada Poora Karo” Abhiyan in Jammu today. Dozens of educated youth including technically trained youth in Sports and Health took part in the protest. Amidst raising of slogans against BJP Govt, the affected candidates set up vegetable stalls with several of them from unemployed Rehbar-e-Khel category polishing shoes on the occasion to project their pathetic plight. Several unemployed educated youth torched their degrees to show their resentment against Govt.
Speaking to the media, Singh announced that the NPP’s Rozgar Abhiyan shall be taken to every nook and corner of J&K and seminars, dharnas and protests shall be organized at District, Tehsil and Block headquarters to awaken the Government which he said, seemed to have abdicated its responsibility towards the younger generations. The issues of unemployed, underemployed, semi employed and self employed would be vigorously highlighted and BJP Government made accountable and answerable for its election time promises made to the youth, said Singh.
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