What has been going on over the spat between the railway minister Mamata Banerjee and the CPI-M throughout the country is causing suffering to the common people of the country. Since Mamata Banerjee is the railway minister and she has been taking a bold step to spread railway ministry’s activity from Kashmir to Kanyakumarika the archrival CPI-M is most annoyed. The CPI-M has been trying to stall the...
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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers.Referring to the recent major rail accidents, Yechury said the railway minister was "sitting on other agenda" - a reference to Banerjee's West Bengal-centric politics.The results of the April-May Lok Sabha elections and the...
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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury Wednesday criticised Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for failing to ensure safety of train passengers.Referring to the recent major rail accidents, Yechury said the railway minister was "sitting on other agenda" - a reference to Banerjee's West Bengal-centric politics.The results of the April-May Lok Sabha elections and the...
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drama ended on Thursday evening for passengers who were held hostage in their train in Bengal on Tuesday; a special train brought them to Delhi, delivering them to safety.But for political parties, the real drama seems to have only just begun, with Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee and the CPM both accusing each other of having links with the state's Naxals.The CPM, which is in power in West Bengal,...
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It's a worrying new trend in the battle between the Naxals and the government. Policemen are being taken hostage in states like Jharkhand and West Bengal. The very real risk to their security, however, is in danger of being reduced to a political blame game, especially in West Bengal.Railways minister Mamata Banerjee has paraded in Delhi the families of two policemen who were kidnapped 3 months ago...
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Railways will set up a research centre named after novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay if the West Bengal government failed to start work on the project in three months, Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday.At a programme in Naihati in North 24-Parganas district, Banerjee said the Railways had handed over the land to the state government in 2007 for the research centre dedicated to Chatterjee,...
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much-awaited white paperon railways is likley to be tabled in the coming session ofParliament, bringing forth its financial position and formerminister Lalu Prasad's claim of turning around the PSUbehemoth.A senior railway official said, "It (white paper) isalmost ready and final touches are being given to it.""It will have certain basic data on railways'operational and financial condition," he said...
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Mamata Banerjee has begun testing the waters for an unpalatable but unavoidable factor in governance: land acquisition.The railway minister who rode to power on an anti-land acquisition platform today conceded that she needed land, including from farmers but “willing”, to lay railway tracks.Mamata stressed on the word “willing” to draw a distinction with the “forcible” acquisition of the CPM-led government...
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NEW COOCHBEHAR: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee unabashedly wooed voters in North Bengalon Thursday, promising to put the neglected region on the fast track todevelopment.Speaking at the flag-off ceremony of a train from NewCooch Behar to Kamakshya in Guwahati, Mamata said two surveys were under way inthe region for possible train connections to Bhutan and Bangladesh. Though shedid not elaborate on...
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Pashchima Karavali RailwayYathrikara Sangha (West Coast Railway Users Association) will take a delegationto Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee this month to urge her to extend theMangalore-Yeshwantpur train up to Karwar.The association allegedthat MP Nalin Kumar Kateel misled people on the issue the related to theextension of Mangalore-Yeshwantpur Express upto Kannur in Kerala. When theextension...
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