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Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a panel at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in London on Friday
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Congress President Rahul Gandhi in a panel at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in London on Friday

Ashis Ray London
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said China created 50,000 jobs a day while the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in India managed to provide employment to only 450 in the same period. On a two-day visit to London, Rahul Gandhi was addressing an interactive session at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a prestigious think-tank.

Attired in a kurta-pyjama, the leader of the main Opposition party answered a question about what economic policies the Congress would follow if it came to power in 2019. “The economic policy will be similar in trajectory to (former Prime Minister) Manmohan Singh’s,” he

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