TUESDAY, MAY 07, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday sought an explanation from Chief Minister Pramod Sawant as to how he will provide 10,000 jobs to Goans by November 30.
The AAP was reacting to the Health Minister’s statement during a media interaction that Sawant Sarkar will provide the 10,000 jobs to the people of Goa by November 30.
“We are now in September and so far no ads/openings have been posted. The AAP strongly suspects that this will once again be a “jumla” wherein the BJP will open up jobs for applications and cancel them. AAP has already challenged Sawant to provide not 10,000 but only 1,000 jobs by yearend. And these should be real jobs with selection formalities completed before the end of the year,” the party stated in a press release.
“Over the past week the AAP has been highlighting how the BJP has completely failed Goa and its youth in providing jobs. Goan youth are being denied employment opportunities. Despite heavily investing in their education, they’re running from pillar to post for jobs to no avail. COVID-19 just worsened the entire situation as several families have gone broke. There were so many people employed in mining who lost employment due to the “corruption” of the BJP and Congress. Today, in Goa, you need ties with MLAs and ministers if you want a government job and the lockdown has slowed down the private sector,” it said.
“Before each election right from the ZP elections, Sawant has been promising 10,000 jobs for Goans. Where are these 10,000 jobs? No one has seen a single ad and the chief minister is silent on how he plans to provide these jobs,” the party said.
“This is turning out to be one of BJP's classic “jumlas”, a fact that was pointed out by AAP Goa's desk in-charge Atishi earlier this week. The AAP highlighted that even 400 health workers who risked their lives to serve Goans during COVID have not received their wages for last five months, even though they are on contract basis. The government that can't pay 400 frontline warriors wants Goa to believe it can provide 10,000 new jobs,” it said.
