‘Promised 5.5 lakh jobs, gave only 94,000’: AIADMK’s Palaniswami attacks Stalin on employment
AIADMK chief Palaniswami on Wednesday attacked chief minister M K Stalin over his government’s employment record, alleging that the DMK had promised to fill 5.5 lakh vacancies but had only provided job orders to 94,000 persons so far.”CM Stalin promised to fill up 5.5 lakh vacancies, including 3.5 lakh government posts, but gave job orders to only 94,000 persons,” Palaniswami told reporters, stepping up his party’s poll campaign against the ruling DMK.
Stalin’s employment promise
On February 16, Stalin had handed over appointment letters to 1,598 persons at the Makkaludan Mudhalvar scheme event in Chennai. He had then said that appointments had been made through various recruitment boards to fill 27,858 posts.”The DMK government has been creating employment opportunities for the youth since the party came to power. The new appointments made today are part of the exercise to fill up 10,000 posts by this June,” Stalin had said.He also announced that the government planned to recruit 50,000 persons in the next two years.Palaniswami’s attack is part of a broader opposition campaign questioning the DMK government’s performance on unemployment, a key issue for Tamil Nadu’s youth, as the state prepares to vote in the upcoming assembly elections scheduled for April 23.
