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Kabir Suman bats for Trivedi, says railway minister not Trinamool
property
Thursday March 15, 2012 08:06:21 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: As the Trinamool Congress leadership seemed to be inching toward putting
a full stop to Dinesh Trivedi's stint as railway minister, he
found a supporter in party MP Kabir Suman, who not only supported
the rail fare hikes but also asserted that the railway minister
was not the party's property.
"The railway ministry is a very big ministry. A railway minister
has to run it properly. The budget is so vast that it can easily
surpass the general budget of some nations. The railway ministry
is not a place of personal catfights," said Suman, who is known
for his frequent off-the-cuff remarks.
"We have to keep faith in Trivedi and other ministers. Now, if the
party starts fighting with Trivedi regarding any issue then it
doesn't look good for democracy. We all know that (Trinamool
president and West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata Banerjee wants to
keep her pro-people image intact. There is nothing wrong in it.
"But to remove someone if he is not following the party line and
replace him with somebody else is not good for democracy. It
doesn't look decent when the budget session is going on. The
moment Dinesh Trivedi took over as railway minister nobody should
consider him the property of a party," Suman added.
Soon after Trivedi finished presenting the railway budget on
Wednesday, Trinamool parliamentary party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay
lashed out against it and demanded a rollback of the fare hikes,
failing which the party would protest inside and outside
parliament.
Banerjee told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday night to
make her Trinamool colleague Mukul Roy the railway minister in
Trivedi's place after he refused to back off despite her strident
criticism.
Suman's relationship with the Trinamool leadership is strained
after he spoke out against alleged corruption among a section of
party leaders and openly condemned the joint forces operation in
the Maoist-infested districts of the state.
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Minister for Railways Dinesh Trivedi interacting with the
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