Jobs as jumlas

Lack of jobs was apparently a less serious problem then than it is today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been often criticised for not exactly fulfilling his promise of 10 million jobs during his campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. After the BJP won those elections with an astounding majority, BJP President Amit Shah brazenly called those promises a "chunavi jumla", or gimmicks to win elections.

As a challenger to the Manmohan Singh government, Modi was willing to risk making promises that were not to keep. He did not have much to lose. In 2013-14, when Narendra Modi was campaigning hard he was unwilling to leave any stone unturned to find his