Angry
Mamata tells PM to replace Trivedi by Mukul Roy
Thursday March 15, 2012 09:13:51 AM,
IANS
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Kolkata: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Wednesday night to make her Trinamool colleague Mukul Roy railway
minister after her nominee Dinesh Trivedi hiked passenger fares
and refused to back off despite Mamata's strident criticism.
Sources close to Banerjee said a communication to this effect had
been sent to the prime minister's office.
The incident comes at the end of a dramatic day that saw rapid
developments beginning with Trivedi proposing across the board
hike in railway fares for the first time in 10 years.
Soon after Trivedi finished presenting his budget, Trinamool
parliamentary party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay lashed out against
the budget and demanded a rollback failing which the party would
protest inside and outside parliament.
"We want the government to rollback the fare hike. It is not in
the interest of the common man," said Bandopadhyay.
Later, speaking at a meeting in East Midnapore district's
Nandigram, Banerjee said: "Today the rail fare has been increased,
we were not aware of it. Our parliamentary party has already
opposed it."
"We will not accept the fare hike. We will not allow the fare hike
to happen for the sake of the common man...We are totally against
it. I can assure you this," Banerjee said.
In his media interactions in Delhi, Trivedi seemed in no mood to
oblige the party leadership.
"The railways was getting into ICU. I have pulled the railways
from ICU. And I have made the railways healthy. I accept full
responsibility…I've no hesitation in accepting that neither the
party nor the leadership was aware of it (the hike)."
In another interview to a channel, Trivedi said for him "the
country comes first, then the family, and then the party".
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Union
Minister for Railways Dinesh Trivedi interacting with the
media persons after presentation of Railway Budget 2012-13, in
New Delhi on March 14, 2012. Ministers of State for Railways
Bharatsinh Solanki and K.H. Muniyappa and the Board Members
are also seen. |
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