‘Should have gone to Ranchi’: Rijiju takes dig at Rahul Gandhi over Prayagraj event | India News

'Should have gone to Ranchi': Rijiju takes dig at Rahul Gandhi over Prayagraj event

NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday took a dig at chief of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, saying he ought to have travelled to Ranchi, the place college students are protesting over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations.In a submit on X, Rijiju mentioned, “Rahul Gandhi ji ought to have gone to Ranchi as a substitute of Prayagraj.”The remarks got here after Rahul, throughout his handle on the occasion, attacked the federal government over what he described as an absence of jobs, costly schooling, paper leaks, poor entry to credit score and the rising use of synthetic intelligence, which he mentioned had been holding India’s youth again.“You’re instructed to observe as many reels as you want, ship as many WhatsApp messages as you want, and browse or create content material on Instagram. That is the habit of the Twenty first century, after which you might be instructed to work for Blinkit or Uber, or to do guide labour. You’ll be able to indulge on this Twenty first-century habit, however you can not get a job; you can not discover employment on this nation,” Rahul mentioned.He additionally criticised the federal government’s financial insurance policies, arguing that demonetisation and what he referred to as “fallacious GST” had broken India’s manufacturing sector.“The primary door is manufacturing. At present, on this planet, you may see ‘Made in China’, ‘Made in Vietnam’, ‘Made in Bangladesh’, however you will not see ‘Made in India’. The reason being that demonetisation and the fallacious GST have destroyed our manufacturing system. Small businessmen who used to supply employment, and industries like leather-based, textile, and car that used to fabricate in India… all that has been completed. The primary door is closed,” he added.In the meantime, in Jharkhand, the state authorities held talks with a number of scholar teams amid protests over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations however failed to interrupt the impasse, with the protesting aspirants deciding to proceed their agitation till their calls for are met.A five-member authorities panel, comprising state ministers, first met a faction of protesters led by JLKM chief Devendra Nath Mahto, whose starvation strike over the difficulty entered its seventh day. The panel then individually met delegations of the Congress-backed NSUI, Adivasi Chhatra Sangh (ACS) and Jharkhand Chhatra Morcha (JCM).

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