Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a large crowd in the Mohana area of Gwalior city on the 50th day of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, launching an attack on the Central government and blaming it for growing unemployment in the country. "Today, in the last 40 years unemployment is the highest in the country. Do you know, India has double the unemployment as compared to Pakistan. Here 23 percent youth are unemployed, there (in Pakistan) it is 12 per cent, so in India, it is double (that of Pakistan). We have more unemployed youth than Bangladesh and Bhutan because Narendra Modi has finished small businesses by demonetisation and implementing GST," Rahul Gandhi said.
West Bengal Governor RN Ravi has dissolved the state legislative assembly with effect from May 7 after completion of its term. With this, Mamata Banerjee, who refused to resign after TMC's debacle in the assembly poll, is no longer the chief minister.
Days after Congress severed its long-standing alliance with DMK to extend conditional support to the TVK, the DMK passed a resolution condemning the grand old party for betrayal and said the 'INDIA bloc is gone'.
The big focus of this episode 5 Live is on the political standoff in Tamil Nadu, where Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has paused the swearing-in of TVK chief Vijay asking to return only after securing signatures of 118 MLAs to prove majority support.
This episode of So Sorry is a funny take on Vijay's blockbuster entry into Tamil Nadu politics in the just concluded assembly election and who is all set to become the chief minister.
