Haryana among states with high unemployment rate: Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav

Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav on Monday attacked the BJP government in Haryana, saying the state has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

He also announced names of eight more Swaraj India candidates for the forthcoming Haryana elections. Names of 10 candidates were announced earlier.

Haryana is No. 1 among the major states when it comes to unemployment rate, Yadav said at a press conference quoting a report and added that this will be a major issue in the forthcoming assembly elections.

The Swaraj India chief said he was citing the latest Unemployment in India, January-April 2019 report released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, an independent think tank.

When asked about the economic situation in the country, He said the central government can address the economic slowdown only when it acknowledges that the problem exists.

While the national figure for unemployment is 6.9 per cent, it is 20.5 per cent in Haryana, nearly thrice as high as the national average.

"Tripura is the only state that recorded higher unemployment than Haryana. The status has not changed since then, as per the latest estimates pertaining to the last week August 2019," Yadav said.

The Government of India in the NSSO report for 2018 found that the level of unemployment in Haryana was nearly twice as the national average, he claimed.

Yadav, who was accompanied by Swaraj India's Haryana unit chief Rajeev Godhara, said the party will launch the 'Jan Sarokar' campaign from September 1 to meet people and discuss their problems.

Targeting the Manohar Lal Khattar government, he claimed that there are more than 16 lakh educated unemployed youth in Haryana today."
He said for three quarters our GDP has been coming down, consumer expenditure is coming down in every possible sector, we know more about auto industry, there is a discussion about cotton."
Saroj Bala, 40, a former AAP member, is Swaraj India's candidate Gannaur, Hardip Singh, 39, from Narwana (SC), Sandip Yadav, 30 from Ateli and Tejpal, 27, from Nangal Chaudhary, Yadav said