Tag: Railway Minister

Rail Budget 2013 Live: Losses are mounting, steep increase in input costs, says Mr. Bansal

As per latest reports, the Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has just started the presentation of the Rail Budget 2013-14 in Parliament.

Further, Mr. Pawan Kumar Bansal is the first Congress minister in 17 years to present the Rail Budget. Read more

Rail fare hike across all passenger classes after a decade

Railway Minister P.K. Bansal on Wednesday announced hike in train passenger fares from across the board, of all classes that come in effect from midnight of January 21.
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Budget 2012 row: Opposition will attack on UPA in Parliament

DINESH TRIVEDI 300x276 Budget 2012 row: Opposition will attack on UPA in ParliamentFinally 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

Rail Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi takes on TMC

dinesh trivedi 300x293 Rail Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi takes on TMCCongress agrees to remove Dinesh Trivedi as the Railway Minister, but not now as if action will be taken against him then it would give him sympathy and make him a hero.

As per source said, Congress asked Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee to wait till next week after the Prime Minister’s reply to the Presidential address and Rail Budget in Parliament on Monday as a mid-session swearing-in will give handle to the Opposition.

After Trivedi presented the Rail Budget 2012 with hike fare prices, he was inviting the wrath of Mamata in form of communicated sacking letter for him to PM. Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee has also asked Dinesh Trivedi to resign. Read more

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