Uttar Pradesh minister and government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh termed the Aam Aadmi Party's proposed ‘Employment Guarantee Rally’ in Lucknow as the new drama of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Mocking Kejriwal for providing just 428 government jobs in Delhi, Singh said that it was nothing short of a joke that he planned an employment guarantee rally in UP.
"This is Kejriwal's new drama. In comparison, the UP government has given more than 4.5 lakh jobs in the last four and a half years besides providing employment to more than 2.5 crore people in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector. The reality of Kejriwal was revealed in reply to a RTI query which said about 428 government jobs in Delhi," Singh said.
The UP minister further said that it was the favourite pastime of AAP leaders to announce free schemes in the states going to polls.
"Now it is the turn of Uttar Pradesh, where AAP is making false promises to the people. The people of the state will not forget how they were forced to leave their jobs due to the negligence of the Kejriwal government during COVID-19 induced lockdown. Also, the Kejriwal government left the COVID-19 victims on their own and numerous patients had to face problems due to lack of oxygen,” he said.
Singh said that the people of Uttar Pradesh had recently seen that due to the negligence of the Delhi government, women performing Chhath Puja in the national capital were forced to bathe in contaminated waters of river Yamuna.
“The people of UP would not be misled by the drama of Arvind Kejriwal guaranteeing employment through a rally and would give his party a befitting reply to their falsehood during the assembly polls in 2022,” Singh prophesied.