India’s Unemployment Rate Is Double Than Pakistan, Claims Rahul Gandhi

The big-ticket decisions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi like demonetisation and the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) have finished small businesses, Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday.

Speaking at a gathering in Madhya Pradesh during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, he said India is grappling with a higher number of unemployed youths compared to Bangladesh and Bhutan.

"Today, there has been maximum unemployment in the country in the last 40 years. India has double the unemployment as compared to Pakistan. We have more unemployed youth than Bangladesh and Bhutan because Narendra Modi has finished small businesses by demonetization and implementing GST," ANI quoted Rahul Gandhi as saying in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior.

The 2022 World Bank report highlights India's youth unemployment rate at 23.22 percent, surpassing that of its neighboring countries Pakistan (11.3 percent) and Bangladesh (12.9 percent).

Also, the Congress leader emphasized social injustice statistics, revealing that 50 percent of the population are backward, eight percent are Tribal, and 15 percent are Dalit, totaling 73 percent.

"Not a single person among these 73 per cent will be found in big companies. Then Modi Ji says that I am working for the poor," he said.

Rahul Gandhi then questioned how one can object to caste census without knowing about the population and wealth of Dalits, Tribals and backward classes.

"Why would anyone object to this? Narendra Modi ji says that there is no caste in the country. There are only two, poor and rich. If so then how did you become OBC?" he added.

"Narendra Modi ji is afraid because he does not want this 73 per cent to know the truth of the country," Rahul Gandhi claimed.