Haryana Congress candidates promise ‘1 job for 50 votes, happy relatives’. ‘Parchi-parmeshwar’, says BJP
The BJP has been posting videos of Congress leaders from the state unit’s X handle, telling people how the main opposition party in Haryana was offering jobs on recommendations rather than merit. Even Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini has posted from his official X account, taking the dig at the Congress on the issue.The jobs controversy erupted after Congress MLA Neeraj Sharma, who is seeking re-election from Faridabad NIT, promised one job for every 50 votes he gets in an election where unemployment has emerged as a key issue.“If you send me back victorious, I’ll get a quota of 2,000 jobs and for every 50 votes, there will be one job. This concept of merit is beyond our people’s comprehension,” Sharma told his supporters at a public gathering.
As his comments blew up, Sharma defended hi...