The Pramod Sawant Govt was caught once again copying Arvind Kejriwal’s model. As AAP wraps up a mammoth Rozgar campaign in the state Pramod Sawant was forced out of his slumber and announced the setting up of skill universities. In doing this he has directly copied Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement in the beginning of the Month that he would set up a Skill university on the lines of DSEU. It is worth noting that Pramod Sawant had earlier blamed students and youth themselves for “sitting at home with degrees”.
Unemployment has become the biggest issue in Goa and has hit the BJP govt like a tone of bricks. Youth across the state have been demanding jobs which the BJP has been unable to provide the same. Goenkars were hit by a double whammy of the pandemic plus lockdown as many tourism based and allied businesses suffered. Mining which has been closed for years now has added to the stress of mining dependents and average Goenkars. All this while the BJP has used two excuses for Goenkars. Excuse 1 that they will provide 10,000 jobs. This excuse has been peddled and recycled every month and every election with no fruition in site. Excuse 2 that youth are sitting at home wasting their degrees. The Shameless Sawant Govt which has failed to find jobs or train youth in employable skills tried to blame its failure on youth themselves. Goenkars have become fed up of this intransigence.
Arvind Kejriwal in his visit last month to Goa has announced his guarantee of providing employment to every youth if the Aam Aadmi Party government is formed in the state. He said that every youth will be given employment after the formation of the AAP government and till the employment is not provided, one youth of every family will be given RS 3,000 per month. He announced that 80 percent of jobs in the private sector will be reserved for the youth of Goa. Rs 5,000 would be provided monthly to families who lost employment due to shutdown of tourism and mining. AAP Government will further establish a Skill University in Goa on the lines of Delhi’s DSEU. He further said that AAP will bring an end to nepotism in government jobs in Goa and the jobs will be made available to the common man.
AAP’s Rozgar Yatra that saw the party take this down to the grassroots of Goa and to every Goan home saw mass participation by Goenkars. AAP held 75 booth meetings a day each attended by 100s of Goenkars while also holding 2 Assembly level rallies in a day. The huge success of the Rozgar Yatra finally woke Pramod Sawant up from his slumber and got him to once again make vague announcements copying AAP. Sawant had done this earlier by copying AAP’s promises on water as well
“If it was not for AAP’s Rozgar Yatra Pramod Sawant would have been sleeping on employment even now!” said AAP Goa VIce President Valmiki Naik. “Where has he been for the last 5 years and why was employment not on his agenda then?” added Naik
“Once again Sawant finds and escape in copying AAP. No matter how much the BJP attacks us they know only AAP has the solutions. And today even Goenkars know this. Thats why rather than go for these cheap duplicates they will vote directly for AAP” said AAP Goa Convenor Rahul Mhambre
