Tejashwi’s Job Promise Needs 4 Times Bihar’s Budget: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister terms RJD leader’s job plan unrealistic; highlights NDA’s pledge of 1 crore employment opportunities
GG News Bureau
Patna/New Delhi, 1st Nov: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has questioned the feasibility of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav’s election promise to provide a government job to one member of every family in Bihar, calling it “economically impossible.”
Speaking at the NDTV Bihar Power Play event with NDTV’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal, Shah said that fulfilling such a promise would require ₹12.85 lakh crore — an amount nearly four times the entire annual budget of Bihar.
“Tejashwi has said a member of every family will get a government job. There are around 2.8 crore families in Bihar, and assuming 20 lakh already have government jobs, that leaves 2.6 crore new jobs. If each of these were B, C, or D-grade posts with an average salary of ₹39,000, the total cost would be ₹12.85 lakh crore,” Shah explained.
With just five days left for the first phase of Bihar Assembly elections, unemployment and job promises have become the focal point of political debate. Shah emphasised that the NDA’s pledge focuses on creating 1 crore employment opportunities across sectors, not just government posts.
“The people of Bihar are smart; they know what’s practical and what’s not. Very few are convinced by such unrealistic promises,” he added.
