SAD accuses CM of misrepresenting jobs data

Chandigarh
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday accused Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh of having tinkered with data on government jobs, misrepresenting recruitment figures in private placement drives and also misrepresenting employment figures under MGNREGA to “defend the lies uttered during the Delhi assembly election campaign”.

In a statement here, senior SAD leaders Prem Singh Chandumajra and Jathedar Tota Singh said: “We understand that lies come easily to someone who has even taken false oaths in the name of the Dasam Pita and the holy Gutka Sahib. However, we would only like to state that however much the chief minister thinks otherwise, the people are not fools. They have seen through the CM’s web of deceit and he cannot whitewash the manner in which he has failed an entire generation by throwing false statistics at them”.

The SAD leaders said the party had asked the chief minister to substantiate his claim to have given eleven lakh jobs.

“He could have released a PDF file with the names of the eleven lakh youth along with the job given to them as well as the remuneration. Instead of doing this he has chosen to politicise a most sensitive issue by trying to bad mouth the opposition. Such behavior does not behove a chief minister”.

The Akali leaders claimed that no new government jobs had been created and that, except for the obligatory filling of vacancies, there was negligible recruitment for government agencies.

“Not only this, the chief minister is trying to appropriate four lakh jobs which he claims have been given by private placement agencies. He has also compounded this crime against the youth of Punjab by appropriating 7.5 lakh jobs which he claims have been given by private companies like Uber and Zomato. We would only like to ask Capt Amarinder one thing. What is your contribution in this? The answer is nil,” the leaders said, adding that records showed that some 2.28 lakh jobs had been created during SAD-BJP government’s 10-year tenure under former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

“The SAD-BJP government also facilitated creation of eight lakh new jobs during this period,” the two leaders claimed.