Lalu brought paradigm shift to Railways:RSS defends Rail Budget
New Delhi, Mar 1 (UNI) With a view to complementing the Railway Minister Lalu Prasad , Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece today praised him for bringing paradigm shift for the Railways behemoth and complemented him for not playing a 'gentleman thief' in his 2008-09 Railways Budget.
Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece in its forthcoming issue even had critical comments on the past Railway Ministers who sought to treat Railways as a 'sanctuary for heavy weight politicians' and for inflating their 'bloated ego trips.' Before Lalu, Railways used to be a 'neglected area' with each budget turning out to be 'virtual audits', resulting in routine hikes on both passenger and freight tariffs. ''Like it or not, Lalu has brought paradigm shift for the Railways and his ways of finding new avenues for boosting the revenues for the massive Public Sector behemoth was commending,'' the paper commended.
The Railways Minister, the paper said, had presented a feel good budget and laid track for full blown election talk, announcing concessions across the board for freight and passenger fares.
The paper also took a dig at Finance Ministers of the country whose ability to keep fighting the deficit, by overburdening the tax payers by asking them to learn a few lessons from Mr Prasad's experiment.
Marginal reductions in fares to compete with low cost airlines would not mean much for a country on the fast track of globalisation but the very thought of competition must be appreciated.
Arguing
in
favour
of
Mr
Prasad,
the
mouth
piece
said
some
economic
journals
seem
to
comment
derisively
on
the
benefits
accrued
to
the
long
distance
travellers
but
he
did
not
resort
to
archiac
idea
of
playing
Peter
to
pay
Paul.
''He
was
a
monumental
failure
as
Chief
Minister
in
Bihar,
hence
the
huge
credibility
gap,''
the
paper
observed
stating
that
,''he
has
really
done
something
for
the
common
man
and
definitely
proved
to
be
the
only
minister
in
the
ruling
UPA
coalition
to
make
a
mark.''
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