Rahul Gandhi takes ‘jumla’ jibe at PM over jobs; bid to distort reality, says BJP

“It’s been nearly a year since announcing the scheme, the government hasn’t even defined it, and has returned the `10,000 crore allotted to it. This shows how serious the PM is about unemployment,” said Gandhi.

“While you create new slogans every day, our youth are still waiting for real opportunities. What is your concrete plan to generate the crores of jobs India desperately needs, or is this just another jumla?” he said.

“Jobs can’t be created by focusing only on large corporates, promoting cronies over fair-play businesses, prioritising assembly over production, and disregarding India’s indigenous skills… ” Gandhi said in a post on X.

“Have you abandoned our unemployed youth along with your promises?” he said.

Hitting back, BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya said either Gandhi’s team has completely failed to brief him on facts or he is “weaponising his trademark ignorance to gaslight India’s youth”. “This isn’t a gaffe; it’s a calculated strategy to distort reality,” he said.

With PTI inputs