Chidambaram: Modi govt incompetent to create jobs, issue in 2019 poll

New Delhi, April 30: Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Monday that the biggest issue in the 2019 Lok Sabha election will be unemployment and Narendra Modi government's "incompetence to create jobs".

Addressing the national executive meeting of the Indian Youth Congress here, Chidambaram said the Modi government did not know how to create jobs.

"There will be many issues but the biggest issue of 2019 election will be unemployment. The government is so incompetent that they don't know how to create jobs," he said.

There were vacancies across sectors and thousands of jobs could be further created, he said.

Citing instances, Chidambaram said there was just one teacher in one lakh government schools. "If at least five teachers are recruited in these one-teacher schools, millions of jobs will be created."

He said there were vacancies of doctors, clerks, peons and safai karamcharis in various departments.