New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked the BJP over the issue of unemployment in Uttar Pradesh, saying double engine government means "double blow" to the unemployed.

In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi claimed that today every third youth of Uttar Pradesh is suffering from the "disease of unemployment".

"Where more than 1.5 lakh government posts are vacant, graduates, post graduates and PhD holders are standing in line even for the posts that require minimum qualification," the former Congress chief said.

"Double engine government means double blow to the unemployed!" he said.

"First of all, the coming out of recruitment possibilities is a dream and even if the recruitment is being done then the paper gets ...