Chhattisgarh: Congress organises 'pakora' protest, names 'pakoras' after Jaitley, Raman Singh

The Congress on Tuesday carried out a "pakoda" protest in Chhattisgarh's Raipur in a bid to mock the Centre.

The Congress workers organised a "Shikshit Berozgar pakoda Center" in the state.This set up comes following Amit Shah's speech at the Rajya Sabha on Monday and Prime Ministers "pakora" comment last month - which started the whole fiasco.

The leaders were seen selling 'Arun Jaitley' pakora and 'Raman' pakora targeting the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and the Chattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh.

The Congress on Tuesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah over his statement on "pakoda" sellers and Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the Rajya Sabha.

Shah was quoted saying: "A pakora seller is earning a living, not begging, who knows his next generation might rise to be a leader, after all, a tea seller has today become a Prime Minister."

Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan hit back at this remark and said: "It is very unfortunate that our country's youth who are talented and educated in various professions are sitting unemployed, and the ruling party is telling them to go and sell pakodas."

"Never has any ruling party in the past made such a despicable and disgraceful remark," he added.

In a recent interview to a news channel last month, the Prime Minister had said a person selling "pakoda" outside and earning Rs 200 a day should also be considered as "employed".

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah on Monday hit out at the Congress for being unable to address the issue of unemployment.

While addressing his maiden speech as the member of Rajya Sabha, Shah said that the Congress ruled the nation for a decade but failed to tackle the issue of unemployment.