Oppn makes unemployment key poll issue, Khattar says situation being portrayed not correct

With the opposition parties targeting the BJP government in Haryana over alleged rising unemployment, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the situation being portrayed by them was not correct.

"As much as it is being said (about unemployment rate), it is not that much," Khattar told a news conference here while replying to questions on lack of jobs.

Opposition parties in Haryana including the Congress have said that the rate of unemployment in the state has reached 28.7 per cent which is the "highest in the country".

Khattar said about 80,000 graduates and post-graduates are unemployed, as per the figures available on Saksham, which is the state government's portal on which unemployed youth seeking job opportunities register themselves.

"There is a percentage of unemployed people who are under matric, class 10th or class 12th pass," he said.

When asked why the opposition has made unemployment a major issue for the October 21 assembly polls, Khattar replied: "There is no definition of what will be an election issue, there is no criteria for that."
Reacting to Sitharaman's comment, Khattar said, "She never said Ola and Uber were responsible for the slowdown in the auto sector."
On the allegations of the opposition that Haryana's law and order situation has worsened under his watch, Khattar said, "As far as law and order situation goes, it has improved compared to what it was earlier (during previous Congress regime)."