Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday released the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Yadav said...

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday released the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. Yadav said that he could have made inflated promises about employment like the Bharatiya Janata Party, but instead chose to stick to his genuine assurance of 10 lakh jobs.
“We are promising 10 lakh jobs because that is the requirement,” Yadav said. “We could also have promised 50 lakh jobs, 1 crore jobs.” Yadav asked how the BJP will fulfil its promise of 19 lakh jobs, when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had himself expressed the inability to create 10 lakh jobs.
Yadav added that his promise will become a reality in the very first meeting of the state Cabinet, Hindustan Times reported. “This will be the first time in the country that 10 lakh employment opportunities will be created at one go,” he said.
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Yadav said that Bihar had the capacity to create jobs. “The Bihar government can easily provide 4 lakh jobs,” he was quoted as saying by NDTV. “The state has a budget of Rs 2.13 lakh crore, of which only 60% has been spent.” He added that...