Khangura asks Badal whether he has anything other than lathis for unemployed - 06/09/2010

CHANDIGARH: Qila Raipur MLA Jassi Khangura has asked the Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to constitute a special task force to talk to the educated unemployed youth who have been protesting all these years. “Lashing them with lathis is no solution and you need to talk to them and address their grievances”, Khangura told Badal in a statement issued here today.

The Congress MLA remarked, “the everyday pictures in newspapers of the protesting educated unemployed youth being mercilessly thrashed and beaten up by the police seem to have become the emblem of this government”. He asked the Chief Minister to listen to them as they deserve to be heard, while pointing out, one educated unemployed lady has already lost life in these protests. Khangura suggested constitution of a special task force comprising of experts and representatives of the educated unemployed youth to find a way out to the problem.

Reminding Badal of his promise in the election manifesto that his government will generate jobs, Khangura said, now he (Badal) has gone back on his promise. “Unfortunately the educated unemployed youth whose expectations were raised so high are feeling cheated”, he regretted, while adding, instead of jobs now they are getting lathis. "Confront them with a solution and not with your lathis", Khangura asked Badal.

Referring to the frequent incidents of the educated unemployed youth being mercilessly beaten up, particularly during the Teachers’ Day celebrations in Amritsar, the Congress legislator said, “it is so disgusting that on the one hand you are honouring some of the teachers inside a hall, while outside the hall you are mercilessly beating those trained and aspiring to be teachers”.

Khangura warned the government against pushing the educated unemployed youth to the wall. “You failed them on all your promises and now you are using brute force to gag their voice”, he told Badal while warning that it can boomerang on the government and the civil society.

He pointed out, “we are already faced with the drug menace across the state and if youth are alienated and frustrated to the extent this government is pushing them to, we can’t hope to get rid of such problems. We have to offer them hope and a way out and not push them to despair and darkness”.

Khangura cautioned Badal against using the brute force against the helpless unemployed youth. He said, “the arrogance and excesses of power will cost you dearly in the forthcoming assembly elections. The unemployed may be defenceless against the lathis of your goons but they are not vote-less. Be careful.”

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