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In a sharp rebuttal to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s claims on the state of employment in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur on Tuesday accused the government of “betraying and misleading” the youth with fabricated statistics and hollow promises.

“Trith, Tass aur Jhoot — hadh kardi apnay Omar Sahab!” Thakur said in a strongly worded statement, reacting to Omar Abdullah’s recent assertion that only three lakh youth are unemployed in the Union Territory. “The ground reality completely contradicts this narrative. The fact is that over nine lakh youth in J&K are struggling without jobs, and Srinagar district alone has more than one lakh unemployed youth, not just 23,000 as falsely projected by the Chief Minister,” he said.

Thakur alleged that the figures presented b

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