Vaishali (Bihar): In an absurd take on unemployment, Bihar Labour Minister Jivesh Mishra said that joblessness has increased with the society switching out of the "old system".
In response to the promise of 10 lakh government jobs by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in the run-up to the Bihar Assembly polls, the BJP had gone a step ahead and promised 19 lakh jobs.
On being asked how the Bihar government now plans on fulfilling its pre-poll promise, state labour minister Jivesh Mishra gave an absurd response.
The minister said that unemployment has now increased due to a switch from the "old system."
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"In Sanatan Dharma, the word 'unemployment' never existed. The system was such that the to-be-born child's line of work was decided in the mother's womb itself," the minister said, possibly referring to the varna system.
Mishra was speaking at a seminar on self-sufficiency in Bihar's Vaishali district when he made the absurd remarks.
Before the Assembly elections in Bihar last year, the BJP in its manifesto reached out to the youth with the promise of 19 lakh jobs in the next five years.
