Huge rush in Home Guard recruitment examination signals looming unemployment scenario in U.P., says Opposition

With astir 2.5 cardinal youths appearing for the Home Guard recruitment introspection successful Uttar Pradesh, which started connected Saturday (April 25, 2026), starring to a unreserved astatine autobus stations and exam centres successful aggregate districts, the Opposition questioned specified precocious numbers of aspirants for the lowest-level authorities job, adding it shows the benignant of unemployment and underemployment the youngsters are facing nether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government.

“We are seeing visuals done societal media of agelong lines extracurricular introspection centres, and autobus stations are afloat with the beingness of aspirants who are giving the test. This reflects the desperation for a low-level authorities job, which is the effect of unemployment successful our State owed to the State Government’s policies. In the past 4 years, they [the government] were unsuccessful successful conducting galore recruitment tests, forcing millions to stay jobless. The unreserved of the assemblage is the effect of that incompetence of the administration,” said Ajay Rai, Uttar Pradesh Congress president.