The Congress on Saturday hit out at the Centre over the issue of recruitment to Government posts, alleging that the Modi dispensation's thinking is “minimum Government, maximum privatisation”.
With his tweet attacking the government, party leader Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders tagged media reports and a Finance Ministry order which said there would be a freeze on creation of new posts except with the approval of the expenditure department.
“Modi government's thinking -- 'Minimum Govt Maximum Privatisation',” Rahul said in a tweet.
The COVID-19 pandemic is just an excuse and the intention is to make government offices “free” of permanent staff, he alleged.
“(Intention is to) Rob the future of the youth and promote (his) friends,” Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi targeting the prime minister, and urged people to speak up.
Rahul also took a dig on Modi for regulating the like and dislikes comments on certain social media sites and said he would continue talking about the government failures.
Congress also slammed the Central government over its latest circular on stopping creation of jobs in the government. The party said “it is a very alarming situation as the country's economy is already in doldrums”.
Addressing a virtual press conference, senior Congress leader Rajeev Shukla said: “The Centre came out with the circular yesterday, in which the creation of new jobs within the government has been completely stopped.”
He said that the circular issued by the Finance Ministry suggests that new jobs “cannot” be created at all, the vacancies which are already existing should not be filled.
“This is a very alarming situation, since country's economy is already in doldrums. Our GDP has gone down - 23.9 per cent. International Labour Organisation (ILO) report suggests that 40 crore people are going to be below poverty line,” he said.
He said that the private sector is already into retrenchment because their financial situation is very bad and the government is not helping them as well in terms of loan waivers etc. The Supreme Court is already hearing the matter.