With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election getting closer, the political fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) is getting sharper.
Akhilesh Yadav, President of the Samajwadi Party, has been questioning Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over unemployment and the lack of jobs for young people.
On Tuesday, he again attacked the government over unemployment, saying the ground reality did not match the government’s claims. Akhilesh Yadav, President of the Samajwadi Party, has been questioning Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over unemployment and the lack of jobs for young people. The Yogi government has responded by putting its recruitment numbers on the table.
The chief minister has said that 9.5 lakh youths have got government jobs since 2017. Together, these four categories account for more than 4.69 lakh appointments. That leaves around 4.81 lakh from the government’s total figure of 9.5 lakh across other government departments and services.
He has also said that the government will give more than one lakh more government jobs in the next six months.
The recruitment push is not over yet.
Yogi Adityanath has said that another one lakh-plus appointments will be made in the next six months.
