‘Stick to doing choreographed interviews’: Amit Malviya lashes out at Rahul Gandhi over PSUs jobs ‘eliminated’ remark

You should stick to doing choreographed interviews, which can be edited later, to remove bloopers and make you look ‘reasonable’.

You ran a vicious campaign against HAL, SBI and LIC too, eventually to look stupid, when each of these PSUs posted super profits. You are once again… https://t.co/lrjSVjAnFi pic.twitter.com/XPMGSbYkAQ

— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) June 18, 2023

Attacking the government, Gandhi on Sunday said that PSUs used to be the pride of India and the dream of every youth for employment but today, they are “not the priority of the government”.

Reacting to this, Malviya tweeted: “You should stick to doing choreographed interviews, which can be edited later, to remove bloopers and make you look ‘reasonable’… You ran a vicious campaign against HAL, SBI, and LIC too, eventually to look stupid, when each of these PSUs posted super profits.”

“You, Rahul Gandhi, should focus on doing Mickey Mouse kind of interviews with your Papa’s colleagues, who are still indebted to the Gandhi family, for the largesses received… You should not try to look intelligent by talking about jobs etc because you understand nothing about these things,” he said.

पीएसयू भारत की शान हुआ करते थे और रोज़गार के लिए हर युवा का सपना हुआ करते थे। मगर, आज ये सरकार की प्राथमिकता नहीं हैं।

देश के पीएसयू में रोज़गार, 2014 में 16.9 लाख से कम हो कर 2022 में मात्र 14.6 लाख रह गए हैं। क्या एक प्रगतिशील देश में रोज़गार घटते हैं?

BSNL में 1,81,127…

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 18, 2023

Malviya also presented a set of statistics to challenge Gandhi’s claims. “In 2013, the total number employed with PSEs stood at 20.3 lakh. The same number as in 2022 was 19.8 lakh, despite rationalisation in BSNL/MTNL and Air India’s disinvestment,” he wrote.

The BJP leader claimed that Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) have added over 20,000 new jobs since June last year as part of Mission recruitment. “Several PSUs have in fact reported an increase in employee strength in 2022 over 2013 when UPA was in power,” he said, listing Indian Oil Corporation, Mahanadi Coalfields, Nuclear Power Corporation, Northern Coalfields, and HPCL Rajasthan Refinery among the PSUs that have registered increased headcounts.

“Congress should stop shedding ‘crocodile tears’ over the state of affairs of PSUs. Poorly-conceived policies of Congress have brought down countless PSUs and sunk taxpayers money, which could have been used for health and education. Due to massive corruption and foolish policies, Air India and BSNL were decimated under the UPA Govt. While PSUs have been given far greater freedom under the Modi Govt,” he further said.

Along with this, Malviya also claimed that the contribution of all CPSEs to Central Exchequer through various duties and taxed has increased, along with their net worth.