A day after Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh claimed that his Government has generated 1,61,522 jobs during first year, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday asked the Congress Government to publish a list of youth who were given jobs during the past one year. At the same time, the party has dubbed Punjab Government’s job fair as “bogus”.
“The Government was making a laughing stock of itself by claiming that 31,000 youth had been given jobs in yesterday’s so-called job fair,” said the former Minister and SAD spokesman Maheshinder Singh Grewal, adding that actually, the Government has taken credit by distributing appointment letters to youth who have already been given employment by the private sector.
Besides, the Government has also handed appointment letters to contractual employees who are already employed by it to swell the figures.
“We demand immediate publication of complete list of all youth given employment in these bogus job fairs along with their addresses as well as emoluments being drawn by them,” he added.
Speaking about the foundation stones laid by Capt Amarinder at ludhiana on Sunday, Grewal said that it did not behove of the CM to try to take credit for projects which had been initiated by the previous SAD-BJP Government.