Patna, Bihar

In a State where 58 per cent of the population is believed to be under 25 age group, Tejaswi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) believes the biggest issue is unemployment and hopes to capture the prevailing mood by promising one job per family in the party’s manifesto. In an interview with businessline , Yadav explained how he plans to provide for this scheme in a state which is in poor fiscal health. He also responded to the criticism of the RJD for ushering in ‘Jungle Raj’.

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In a State with a debt-to-GSDP ratio of a staggering 39.6 per cent, how are you proposing to provide for one government job per family?

When we announced the jobs-for-every-family scheme, we knew this question would come. We’ve done detailed financial modelling and identified

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