The Congress is planning to cash in the disenchantment of the unemployed voters in a big way. In order to draw these electorate, the party is all set to roll on a unique movement in the Mumbai metropolitan the success of which would be replicated in other States as well before the grand old party finally announces the unemployment stipend in its manifesto.
The Congress will launch its campaign titled “Chalo Ward Abhiyaan” aimed at registering unemployed young men and women to provide them a monthly allowance if the party is voted to power in the Lok Sabha polls.
“As per the strategy, Mumbai Congress has already started working on the plan and printed around six lakh forms. The Youth Congress workers will be visiting every house in all the Assembly segments in Mumbai to ensure that every youngster fills these forms,” said a AICC source. People between 18 and 40 years of age will be enrolled for for the unemployment allowance.
Those who fill the forms will be given allowance cards. If f Congress is voted to power, the allowance card holders will be given preference in employment, or else they will provided unemployment allowance.
The new Congress-led governments in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh had already announced unemployment allowances of Rs 3,500 and Rs 4,000 per month respectively and the State, according to AICC source, is working on the disbursement of the share.
“Unlike the ruling BJP, the Congress will actually walk the talk, if it is voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections,” said Sanjay Nirupam, chief of Mumbai Congress.
Congress has often slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his 2014 promise of creating two crore jobs per year and alleged that unemployment in the country had reached a decade’s high at 7.4 per cent.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi too recently mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and referred him as German dictator and Nazi Party chief Adolf Hitler. Citing a recent National Sample Survey Office’s Periodic Labour Force Survey of Non unemployment, Rahul said unemployment rate in India was at a 45-year-high of 6.1 oercent in 2017-’18. “The Fuhrer promised us two crore jobs a year,” the Gandhi scion tweeted. “Five years later, his leaked job creation report card reveals a national disaster.” The Fuhrer was a political title used for German dictator and Nazi Party chief Adolf Hitler.