Finally Dinesh Trivedi took a decision to resign as Railway Minister on Sunday after Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee went to Delhi in the evening to address a meeting.
“I spoke to Mamata to get her confirmation and she said that I should step down, it was the party’s decision. I must thank the TMC, Mamata, the entire cabinet and the captain Manmohan Singh,” Trivedi said on Sunday while speaking to Mamata.
Suddenly Mamata left for Delhi to chair a meeting in which her parliamentary party leaders came, was a move to put pressure on the government to act upon her wrath of leaving out Trivedi from Parliament to schedule wrong Rail Budget 2012 as fares hike. Read more