Attacking the Modi regime, Chidambaram said, ”The NDA government’s wild claims of creating 70 lakh new jobs in 2017-18 has been punctured now.
Taking a dig at PM Modi, Chidambaram said that he should understand that there is a marked difference between job and self-employment as the former is “regular and reasonably secure”.
The veteran Congress leader was referring to PM Modi’s interview on January 19 where he had said, ”If a person sells ‘pakodas’ and takes home Rs 200 every evening, is that not employment?”
In a firm rebuttal to the PM’s contention, Chidambaram tweeted, ”Even selling pakodas is a ‘job’ said PM. By that logic, even begging is a job.
Let’s count poor or disabled persons who are forced to beg for a living as ’employed’ people.”
