Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced that to meet the target of providing 1 lakh jobs by Jan 26, 2027, govt will organise one appointment letter distribution event every five days till the next Republic Day.
He said that by Aug 15, 2026, the BJP govt had given 9.5 lakh jobs and he had promised to give another 1 lakh jobs by Jan 26, 2027.
Highlighting govt’s achievements in making fresh appointments, the CM said that 10,836 people had been recruited earlier, and on Wednesday, appointment letters were being given to 1,146 junior assistants. Before 2017, appointments were not possible without recommendations and bribes. Citing the Bollywood movie ‘Munna Bhai MBBS’, the CM said, “Before 2017, not only a Munna Bhai was heading the govt but ‘Munna Bhais’ were sitting in the administration as well.
I told him to start counting and he couldn’t. He should hire his uncle Shivpal Yadav who has a long experience in counting,” Yogi said. “In any case, by the time he wakes up, the work of distributing appointment letters is over,” the CM said.
“When this announcement was made, the chief of ‘Saifai syndicate’ (referring to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav ) asked how it was possible. “This is what you get when a govt has good intent and clear policy, and recruitment commissions and boards function honestly. SP and Congress were responsible for anarchy, corruption, nepotism and plunder in the state. Recruitment commissions and boards were held hostage by the ‘Saifai syndicate’,” the CM alleged. People who had not even appeared for an exam would qualify for jobs. The CM congratulated the candidates for having attained their youth while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in power, and not having suffered under previous govts. He appealed to them, and the generation before them, to not forgive SP and Congress who had brought upon a crisis of identity for the state’s youth.