NEW DELHI: The
Congress
on Thursday released '
Black Paper
' in response to the 'White Paper' set to be brought by the central government in the ongoing budget session of Parliament.
Addressing a press briefing, Congress party chief Mallikarjun Kharge said the 'Black Paper' highlights 'failures' of government on
unemployment
,
price rise
,
farmers' distress
.
"We are raising the main issue of unemployment, which the BJP never talks about. There is discrimination being done with non-BJP states like Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana...," Kharge said.
The central government had earlier announced in the union budget presented on February 1 that it will come out with a 'White Paper' to compare the economic performance of 10 years of the Congress-led UPA government with that of 10 years of the BJP-led NDA government.
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