In a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks on job creation, a group of college students, donning degree robes, sold pakodas near the venue of his rally at Bengaluru before they were whisked away by police.
The students appeared near Mehkri Circle, a few metres away from Palace Ground where Modi will address a rally. The young students sold Modi pakodas, Amit Shah pakodas and Dr Yeddy pakodas, a reference to Karnataka BJP chief Yeddyurappa, to those passing by, including the BJP workers and visitors on their way to the rally.
The police later removed the degree robes of the protesting students and took them into custody.
The students were protesting Modi's remarks in an interview where he equated selling pakodas with job creation. On being asked about inadequate job creation in the last four years in the interview, the prime minister had said that a person selling pakodas outside their (channel's) television studio and earning Rs 200 a day should also be perceived as being 'employed'.