The Youth Congress held a ‘Yuba Akros Samabesh’ and rally here on Thursday against unemployment and price rise in the country and the failure of the Modi Government at the Centre and the Naveen Government in the State to contain them.
While thousands of Congress youth workers joined the Samabesh, it was presided over by State Youth Congress president Dr Smruti Ranjan Lenka and joined by All India Youth Congress president Srinivas BV as chief guest.
Many Congress leaders from the State and outside, including PCC president Niranjan Pattanayak, AICC secretary Rudra Raju, PCC executive president Pradeep Majhi, MLA Mohammed Moqkim, Bihar and Manipur Congress in-charge Bhakta Charan Das, AICC secretary Biswaranjan Mohanty, All India Youth Congress general secretary Pratibha Raghuvansi, secretary Riyazul Ansari, former Minister Panchanan Kanungo, Sibananda Ray, Debandra Nath Sarma, Adhiraj Mohan Panigrahi and Giribala Behera addressed the youths.
Srinivas alleged that PM Narendra Modi had promised to provide employment to about two crore youths in the country in a year during campaigning for polls, but now he has disappointed the youths.
“Why Modi is not telling how many youths were given jobs as he is addressing rallies these days,” he asked and added that in Odisha too, the Naveen Patnaik Government has failed on the employment front as the State has emerged No.
1 in the country on the ground of joblessness.
He said the remote control of CM Patnaik is in the hand of PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. State Youth Congress president Dr Lenka too flayed the State Government for Odisha for growing joblessness, women harassment, rape, theft and snatching.
He charged that the people of the Sate were not feeling safe in Odisha while the State Government had turned a mute spectator.
Many leaders from the State and district levels also attacked the Central and State Governments for anti-farmer policies, deteriorating law and order and rising unemployment, etc.
Later, a rally was taken out for gheraoing the Assembly when police arrested thousands of Congress youths.