While the PM tried to hard sell this ‘before and after’ picture of his 10-year rule, it was left to the father of a Gujarati youth killed in the Ukraine war while serving the Russian army to deliver a stern reality check. https://thewire.in/economy/delusions-of-modinomics-cannot-hide-the-gloom-which-is-all-around-us
“What is there in India? We are ready to move to Russia… I am ready to give up Indian citizenship,”
said Ashvinbhai Mangukiya, father of young Hemil who was killed in a Ukrainian air strike in Russia in February. Russia has offered Rs 1.3 crore as compensation to the family and Russian citizenship too.
Ashvinbhai, who spoke to The Hindu’s Vijaita Singh, can bring Modi out of his delusional state and tell him there are no quality jobs for the youth in India anymore. Ten years of Modi have seen unprecedented joblessness as most government data points reveal. No wonder, young men from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan are willing to put themselves in harm’s way by taking up jobs in Israel and Russia in the midst of the deadly wars those countries are waging. His is the most stinging indictment of Modi’s economic performance – or lack of it. How else can you describe India’s predicament when Modi has to ask Putin to speedily repatriate the desperate Indians fighting Russia’s war in Ukraine (as mere ‘helpers’) while the father of a dead Indian soldier is saying there is nothing left in India and he too wants to migrate to Russia.
Joblessness has peaked in India during the the BJP-led regime, whatever his spin doctors might argue. I distinctly remember Modi telling enthusiastic youth in UP and Bihar during the 2014 election campaign, “You give me 10 years and I will transform your lives”. Well, Modi has had ten years already and he has just ended up seeking the return of desperate Indian youth fighting other people’s wars abroad because there are no jobs in India.
by M.K. Venu
11/07/2024
