Congress leader Shashi Tharoor mocks PM Modi's 'pakora' remark at St. Xavier's University Convocation
Kolkata, July 27 (IBNS): In his address at the St. Xaviers's University's First Convocation Day, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday mocked Narendra Modi's 'pakora' remark which the Prime Minister made last year.
"We are releasing graduates into an ecosystem that does not know how to use them; they settle for a constable post as an alternative to frying pakoras as some politicians have advised to do," said Tharoor.
Speaking about unemployment, Modi in 2018 had said selling pakoras and earning Rs. 200 per day is also a way of employment.
Tharoor on Saturday also slammed the Modi government for not subsidising scholarships but funding for erection of statues.
"Last week, the students of Bangalore's National Law School University, who already pay Rs. 1,80,000 a year, were suddenly told, with no prior warning or consultation, that their fees were growing up by Rs. 50,000 more. The impact of this on students studying on loans or scholarships and belonging to economically weaker backgrounds, is perhaps unfathomable. This is arguably the best legal university in the country, and a sound legal education is a foundation for our democracy. But our present Government will not invest in subsidising scholarships for our students, preferring to waste its money on grandiose statues instead," said the Thiruvananthapuram MP.
The convocation was held at St. Xavier's University's Rajarhat campus.
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