Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, citing RBI data on employment generation, highlighted the stark contrast between the UPA and NDA governments. He said, “My claim is based on truth… According to RBI’s annual employment data, only 2.9 crore jobs were created between 2004 and 2014 under the UPA government, compared to , the NDA government created 17.6 crore jobs by 2024, adding 4.9 crore jobs in 2023-24 alone revealed that employment growth under the UPA was only 7 percent, while under the NDA, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it had grown to 36 percent over the past decade.