We will deliver on the promise of job creation: Tejashwi Yadav

Tejashwi Yadav claimed that his boss Nitish Kumar, with whom he took oath the day before, has issued instructions to the officials concerned to accord “top priority” to job creation.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on August 11 asserted that his newly formed government will “deliver” on the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs that he had made while spearheading the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) campaign during the Assembly elections in 2020.

Mr. Yadav claimed that his boss Nitish Kumar, with whom he took oath the day before, has issued instructions to the officials concerned to accord “top priority” to job creation.

JD(U) leader Kumar took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the eighth time on August 10. The development took place a day after Mr. Kumar snapped ties with the BJP-led NDA and joined hands with the RJD and other Opposition parties, including the Congress, to form a ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government.

“There are so many vacant posts in government Departments. We will begin by filling these up. Just for the time till we become fully functional after proving a majority on the floor of the assembly”, Mr. Yadav told a news channel.

It was not just a promise but an acknowledgement of the crying need for employment generation in Bihar, the Deputy Chief Minister said.

“We cannot think of going back on it since people had showered their blessings in the elections in which the RJD-led alliance polled only about 12,000 votes less, across all 243 Assembly seats than the NDA”, he recalled.