New Delhi, April 22 -- The Congress on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has caused an "unprecedented decline" in worker wages adjusted for price rise and said that an INDIA coalition Government will return the country to a higher growth trajectory.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said multiple data sources, including the Modi government's own official statistics, are unanimous in showing the simple fact that workers can buy less today than they could 10 years ago.
A combination of slow wage growth and back-breaking inflation has caused an unprecedented decline in real wages, he said in a statement.
"Labour Bureau's Wage Rate Index (Government Data): Between 2014 and 2023, real wages for labourers have stagnated, ...