The BJP on Monday alleged the Make in Odisha Conclave, which is being held, bears no meaning as the State’s BJD Government has failed in providing employment to youths during its 19 years of its rule.
“The State Government has betrayed youths by not give employments to them. While many Government posts are lying vacant and MoU-signed companies have failed to give employments to local youths, holding Make in Odisha Conclave bears no meaning. It is meant to collect funds for the ruling party to meet election expenditure,” alleged BJP Yuva Morcha president Tankadhar Tripathy on the concluding event of the two-day “Yuva Adhikar Sangharsha Yatra here.
Stating that over 35 lakh job seekers have registered names with different Employment Exchanges, Tripathy demanded that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik should make a statement in the public as to how many of registered youths have got jobs. A Padayatra taken out from the Utkal Gourav Madhu Sudan Das’ birthplace Satyabhamapur reached Pratapnagari on Sunday.
The rally concluded at the Baxi Jagabandhu statue here on Monday.BJP State president Basant Panda, vice-president Sameer Mohanty, secretaries kalandi Samal and Dillip Mallick, spokesperson Dilip Mohanty, executive members Jagannath Pradhan and Amiya Das, Bhubaneswar president Amiya Das were present.