Jairam slams Modi

 Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday blamed the Modi government for failing to generate sufficient employment opportunities in the country.

“In the past two years, the Modi government generated less than 4 lakh jobs against its claim of over 2 crore jobs per annum. As per the Union government’s figures, only 1.50 lakh jobs were created in 2015 and 2 lakh in 2016,” Ramesh said on Saturday, while addressing journalists.

“The Modi government, which completes three years in power on May 26, can be best described by the phrase, ‘Adhiktam Prachar, Nyuntam Vichar’ (maximum propaganda, minimum thought process),” he said.

He also hit out at the Modi government for what he called poor track record in the fields of agriculture and rural development.

“The Minimum Support Price (MSP) of farm produce grew at a very slow pace. The MSP for paddy grew at 9% annually in the last three years of the Manmohan Singh government’s tenure. This has shrunk to 3.4% per annum under the NDA rule,” he said.

“Procurement of wheat too has come down. This is the ‘Make in India’ agriculture,” Ramesh said.