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Accusing the Narendra Mod<\/a>i government of not even defining the ‘Employment Linked Incentive’ (ELI) scheme <\/a>announced a year ago by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress<\/a> leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (April 11, 2025) asked if it was just another jumla (false promise)<\/p>\n Taking to social media platform X, Mr. Gandhi that after the 2024 election, Mr. Modi announced the incentive scheme with much fanfare, promising to provide employment to the youth.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been nearly a year since announcing the scheme, the government hasn\u2019t even defined it, and has returned the \u20b910,000 crores allotted to it. This shows how serious the PM is about unemployment,\u201d Mr. Gandhi alleged.<\/p>\n He said while the Prime Minister creates new slogans every day, the youth are still waiting for real opportunities. \u201dWhat is your concrete plan to generate the crores of jobs India desperately needs, or is this just another jumla?\u201d he asked in his post. <\/p>\n Criticising the government\u2019s employment policy, Mr. Gandhi said jobs can\u2019t be created by \u201cfocusing only on large corporates, promoting cronies over fair-play businesses, prioritising assembly over production, and disregarding India\u2019s indigenous skills\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way to create crores of jobs is through large-scale investment in MSMEs [micro, medium, and small enterprises], fair markets where competition can thrive, support for local production networks and youth equipped with the right skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Gandhi further asked when would the Prime Minister shift his focus \u201cfrom enriching Adani and his billionaire friends to ensuring that young people from marginalised communities have equal access to employment\u201d. Hitting back, the BJP\u2019s Amit Malviya said either Mr. Gandhi\u2019s team had completely failed to brief him on the facts or, far more likely, he was \u201cweaponising his trademark ignorance to gaslight India\u2019s youth\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t a gaffe; it\u2019s a calculated strategy to distort reality, using his platform to spread misinformation under the guise of cluelessness,\u201d Mr. Malviya added in his post on X. He claimed that only 2.9 crore jobs were created during 2004-14 under the Congress-led UPA government, while the corresponding figure for the Modi government during 2014-24 was 17.19 crore.<\/p>\n \u201cIn just the last year alone (2023-24), 4.6 crore jobs were created \u2014 more than the entire decade of Congress rule,\u201d Mr. Malviya said. <\/p>\n \u2018FDI falling\u2019<\/p>\n Separately, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh accused the Modi government of destroying domestic investment and also causing a \u201cnear annihilation of Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) through its practice of another type of FDI \u2014 Fear, Deceit, and Intimidation\u201d.<\/p>\n In a post on X, Mr. Ramesh said the net FDI in India from April 2024 to January 2025 was only $1.4 billion, against $19 billion from April 2012 to January 2013 when the Congress-led UPA was in power.<\/p>\n He claimed that the Modi government achieved this \u201cdistinction\u201d even before Donald Trump took over as the U.S. President in January 2025. \u201cDuring Joe Biden\u2019s presidency, companies across the world were scrambling to invest in Asian countries, excluding China. Vietnam, Indonesia, and Bangladesh got billions in investment while India languished,\u201d the Congress leader added. <\/p>\n Published – April 11, 2025 12:39 pm IST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi. 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