Princeton

People around the world are electing leaders like Narendra Modi and Donald Trump due to frustration over growing unemployment, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said today while acknowledging that his party lost the 2014 General Election as it failed to create enough jobs.

Gandhi, 47, who is in the US on a two-week tour, during his interaction with students at Princeton University said employment was an all-encompassing means to empower, enfranchise and involve Indians in the nation building process.

“I think the central reason why Modi rose and to an extent why Trump came, is the question of jobs in India and in the US. There’s a large part of our populations that simply does not have jobs and cannot see a future. And, so they are feeling pain. And they have supported these type of leaders,” Gandhi said.