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NEW DELHI, July 5, 2022: Chairman of the Communications Department of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee and ex-MLA Shri Anil Bhardwaj said that the Aam Aadmi Party Government called a special two-day session of the Assembly to pass Bills to hike the salaries and allowances of the Ministers and MLAs, but the session did not broach the subject of providing unemployment allowance to the youth. He said that lakhs of youth have been rendered jobless due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns and devastations, which not only ruined businesses and the economy, but robbed the jobs and livelihoods of lakhs of people, with the Kejriwal Government extending them no help to tide over the crisis.
Addressing a press conference at the DPCC office, Rajiv Bhawan here today, Shri Anil Bhardwaj, who is a former Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister, said that the Arvind Kejriwal Government does not call special sessions of the Assembly to discuss issues affecting the welfare of the people like unemployment, water shortage, pollution, price rise, public transport woes etc, but convenes sessions to discuss issues that benefit Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his Ministers and MLAs. Vice-chairman of the DPCC Communications Department Shri Anuj Attrey was also present at the press conference.
Anil Bhardwaj said that like the MGNREGA scheme, the Delhi Government should implement the Employment Guarantee Scheme and provide unemployment allowance to the youth to provide them some relief from their present plight.
Anil Bhardwaj said that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had promised to give 8 lakh jobs when he first came to power, but did not fulfill his promise, though thousands of vacancies in various departments of the Delhi Government have not yet been filled. He said that the Kejriwal Government presented a Rozgar Budget to sell false job dreams to the youth, and claimed that 1, 78,000 jobs had been provided, which was a lie, though Delhi has nearly 15 lakh youth registered for jobs with employment exchanges. He said that in the past eight years, only 440 have been given Government jobs while just 3896 got jobs through the Employment Portal. He demanded that Kejriwal should apologize to the youth for telling a lie.
Bhardwaj said that Kejriwal had promised 10 lakh jobs in his public speeches, but just over 12,588 people got some sort of jobs in the private sector till May 1, 2022 out of 76,646 job applicants who were screened. He said that no special session was called to discuss the drinking water shortage as people were not getting water through pipes, though the streets were flooded after rains as the PWD Department under Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia did not carry out the desilting work on time. He said that the tanker mafia was exploiting the people due to non-availability of potable water through the pipelines as all of Kejriwal’s promises have remained mere promises.
Ch. Anil Kumar said that Shri Kejriwal had promised to regularize 22,000 guest teachers and 66,000 temporary employees of various departments of the Delhi Government, but they continue to remain on temporary rolls for the past eight years as the Kejriwal Government has not bothered to regularize them.
Anil Bhardwaj said that the two-day Assembly session should have discussed the acute unemployment prevailing in Delhi, and took a decision to give unemployment allowance to the youth, as the Chief Minister had assured the youth of Uttarakhand and Goa unemployment allowance of Rs 5000 per month before the recent Assembly elections if elected to power, but he should implement such a promise first in Delhi, where there is a surplus budget
