A claim by BJP’s National Information & Technology Department Amit Malviya is getting a lot of attention on social media. He is claiming that the state of Gujarat is having a total number of Jobs available to be only 5.6 lakh so how can Kejriwal promise on providing 10 Lakh jobs?
In the viral tweet he writes, “Today, Kejriwal promised 10 lakh Govt jobs in Gujarat. Gujarat has had 5.6 lakh jobs in all since Independence. The absurdity is evident in the fact that he promises to double the number in 5 years. This is the cut paste model of offering 10 lakh jobs everywhere he goes!”
Fact Check:
To investigate this claim of Amit Malviya, DFRAC desk started searching the number of available jobs in Gujarat state with the help of specific keyphrases and keywords.
While searching DFRAC found a report from the famous newspaper “The Indian Express” with the headline, “Jobs provided by Gujarat govt fell by 85% in 5 years, say records.”
Dated July 8th, 2019.
In the report, it was mentioned that a total of 57,920 government jobs were provided during this five-year period, forming just 3.3 percent of the total 17,52,890 jobs provided across Gujarat between October 2013 and September 2018 states the data tabled by Employment minister Gujarat
On more investigating, DFRAC found one more report “The Indian Express” which was from recent time i.e 9th August 2022. In the report, it was mentioned that after Amit Malviya’s Tweet Jedeja questioned BJP about the two consecutive state Budget speeches, where their own former deputy chief minister and finance minister Nitin Patel had claimed that he would provide 15-20 lakh jobs every year.
Conclusion:
With the investigation by the DFRAC desk, it is clear that the Tweet by Amit Malviya is misleading in nature.
Claim Review: If the state of Gujarat is having a total number of Jobs availability to be only 5.6 lakh so how can Kejriwal promise on providing 10 Lakh jobs.
Claimed by: Amit Malviya
Fact Check: Misleading
