Rahul Gandhi has accused PM Modi of causing maximum unemployment in India in 40 years by finishing small businesses through demonetisation and GST.
Rahul Gandhi believes Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “finished” small businesses in India. He, during a speech in Madhya Pradesh, was speaking about India’s unemployment woes. He mentioned that India’s unemployment had surpassed Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan.
According to Gandhi, PM Modi’s policies are responsible for it. His policies have adversely affected small enterprises, he said. The Congress leader specifically pointed to demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as critical blows.
“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 Gandhi as saying in Gwalior.
India’s youth unemployment rate stood at a staggering 23.22%. Pakistan’s unemployment rate stood at 11.3% and Bangladesh’s 12.9%, as per a World Bank report from 2022.