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The government must understand that the Indian Railways is like a Kamdhenu cow. It can look after your GDP, it can look after the health of the nation. But the Kamdhenu cow also needs nourishment.'
'You have not at all looked after the Indian Railways, you have ill treated the Indian Railways, you have mistreated the Indian Railways and you have given the Indian Railways step motherly treatment.'
'I don't think this government has understood the Indian Railways.'
Dinesh Trivedi is a rare politician -- ever smiling, talkative, someone who has defied identity politics so prevalent in India, of caste, region and language.
A Kutchi Gujarati, he has achieved the impossible feat of getting elected from Barrackpore, West Bengal's minority-dominated constituency where more than half the population is poor.
As India's railway minister Trivedi made his mark in a brief period which brought him in direct confrontation with his party leader Mamta Banerjee who forced him to resign after he presented the Railway Budget in February 2012.
There is ample rumour in New Delhi that Trivedi will soon leave the Trinamool Congress, the party he co-founded along with others under Banerjee's leadership.
Perhaps to pre-empt the possibility of Trivedi joining the Bharatiya Janata Party, Banerjee recently appointed him party vice-president.
In an exclusive interview to Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com, Dinesh Trivedi discusses the challenges confronting Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu who presents the Railway Budget in Parliament on Thursday, February 26.
For more refer this link below :
Exclusive! 'The Railways are bankrupt' - Rediff.com India News
'You have not at all looked after the Indian Railways, you have ill treated the Indian Railways, you have mistreated the Indian Railways and you have given the Indian Railways step motherly treatment.'
'I don't think this government has understood the Indian Railways.'
Dinesh Trivedi is a rare politician -- ever smiling, talkative, someone who has defied identity politics so prevalent in India, of caste, region and language.
A Kutchi Gujarati, he has achieved the impossible feat of getting elected from Barrackpore, West Bengal's minority-dominated constituency where more than half the population is poor.
As India's railway minister Trivedi made his mark in a brief period which brought him in direct confrontation with his party leader Mamta Banerjee who forced him to resign after he presented the Railway Budget in February 2012.
There is ample rumour in New Delhi that Trivedi will soon leave the Trinamool Congress, the party he co-founded along with others under Banerjee's leadership.
Perhaps to pre-empt the possibility of Trivedi joining the Bharatiya Janata Party, Banerjee recently appointed him party vice-president.
In an exclusive interview to Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com, Dinesh Trivedi discusses the challenges confronting Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu who presents the Railway Budget in Parliament on Thursday, February 26.
For more refer this link below :
Exclusive! 'The Railways are bankrupt' - Rediff.com India News
