Twitterati to celebrate PM Modi’s birthday as “National Unemployment Day” on September 17
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will turn 70 on September 17, 2020. His party, the ruling BJP has added that it will celebrate the PM’s birthday in a week-long ‘Seva Saptah’ from September 14-20.
On the other hand on Twitter, the netizens have decided to mark the day as “National Unemployment Day” to highlight the Prime Minister’s failure to create jobs and provide employment for the people of the country. An agenda, riding on which Modi had contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
Twitter users, on Friday afternoon, tweeted thousands of posts with hashtag #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes and called on people to take part in the Twitter campaign on September 17.
Several users asserted that the youths of the country were frustrated over the unemployment and lack of opportunities in the market.
Along with #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes another hashtag in Hindi was trending on Friday #राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस.
Let's celebrate National Unemployment Day on Modi Ji's birthday..#राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस#17Sept17Hrs17Minutes pic.twitter.com/XojM0EtCfN
— Asad Ali Ansari (@asadaliansari17) September 11, 2020
The Youth of India need to take back the Nation India into their control & Make India of the Dreams of
— Meraj (@merajsiddiqui1) September 11, 2020
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sahdev, Bismil & millions of others who laid down their lives so that India gets Independence!#17Sept17Hrs17Minutes #राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस
#राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस
— Ashok Ambedkar (@AmbedkarAshok) September 11, 2020
It's time to fight....Time to unite...Time to speak.
We want job !!!
We have the power to change the world. And we will change the world..?#17सितम्बर_राष्ट्रीय_बेरोजगार_दिवस #17Sept17Hrs17Minutes pic.twitter.com/CgD949iYkc
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Lok Sabha elections not fought on level playing field, alleges Rahul Gandhi
Washington (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has alleged the general elections in India this summer were not fought on a level playing field, asserting that the polls have destroyed the idea of Modi.
The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, who is currently on a four-day visit to the United States, made the remarks at the prestigious Georgetown University here on Monday.
Addressing the event, Gandhi said that the ruling coalition had collapsed and was broken "right down the middle".
“It's not just the prime minister, it's deeper than that. What has happened in India is that the coalition that brought Mr (Narendra) Modi to power has collapsed. It's broken right down the middle," Gandhi said.
"So you'll see in these elections that they will struggle. Because the basic idea that Mr Modi is running a government for the people of India is gone,” he added.
Alleging that the Lok Sabha elections were not fought on the same footing, Gandhi said, "I don’t see it as a free election. I see it as a heavily controlled election."
"I don't believe that in a fair election, the BJP would come anywhere near 240 seats. I would be surprised," he said, asserting that the party had a "huge financial advantage".
"The Election Commission was doing what they wanted. The entire campaign was structured so that Mr Modi could carry out his agenda across the country, with different designs for different states," Gandhi claimed.
"The Congress party fought the elections with their bank accounts frozen and has basically destroyed the idea of Modi. You can see it because when you see the prime minister now in Parliament...he is psychologically trapped, and he basically cannot come to terms, he cannot understand how this has happened," he said.
Responding to a question, Gandhi said that halfway through the campaign, Prime Minister Modi didn't think he would get anywhere near 300 or 400 seats.
“I think early on he realised that this thing's going wrong. We were getting inputs from regular sources...It was pretty clear that they were in trouble,” he said.
“So, there was this internal thing going on in the prime minister that I could see. And psychologically, how is this now happening? Because he's a person, as you know, he was in Gujarat for many years, never faced political adversity, then prime minister of India. Suddenly, this idea started to crack,” Gandhi said.
“We knew. When he said that I speak directly to God, we knew that we had actually blown him apart. And that the psychology had gone. So people think that, well, this was the prime minister sort of saying that, look, 'I'm special, I'm unique, and I talk to God'. But that's not how we saw it. Internally, we saw it as a psychological collapse, what happened here? How is this thing not working?” he said.
"Now that idea has been replaced," he said.
Gandhi, who arrived in the US on Saturday, interacted with members of the Indian diaspora and youths in Dallas, Texas. He also plans to meet lawmakers and senior officials of the US government in Washington DC.
