The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), on Wednesday, launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Centre government over the rising incidence of suicides among labourers in the country.
In a statement, AAP’ state chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang expressed deep anguished over persistently increasing numbers of suicides among daily wage workers in the country.
He said during the BJP regime over the past eight years, suicides by labourers rose from 15,735 people in 2014 to 42,004 in 2021.
The AAP leader said it a matter of grave concern that the highest number of suicides by labourers over the past eight years was recorded in 2021 with 42,004 whereas 30,127 daily wagers died by suicide in 2018, and 32,563 in 2019 to 37,666 in 2020.
Sharing a news clipping, Kang wrote on Twitter, “In the eight years of BJP’s rule, which has the slogan of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, there has been a three-fold increase in the suicide cases of workers. The BJP government should be ashamed of the plight of workers. Was this your ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’? Poor laborers are forced to commit suicide every day.”
He said the Central government should be more sensitive towards daily wagers and must bring some policies to uplift their living standards rather than working to make its corporate friends richer every day. Therefore, downtrodden people won’t be forced to take such extreme steps in the future, the AAP leader added.