Cautious
Trivedi ‘welcomes’ any move good for railways
Express news service
Posted: Oct
10, 2012
Kolkata Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi, who had to resign as RailwayMinister within days after presenting the rail
budget as his party chief Mamata Banerjee disapproved his proposal for a passenger fare hike, on Tuesday
reacted cautiously to the Railway Ministry’s move of setting up a
Railway Tarriff Authority saying “any move that is good for the railway’s
health, safety and modernisation has to be supported.”
Refusing to elaborate, Trivedi
said: “I had mooted the same proposal of setting up a railway tarrif authority.
They are doing what I had proposed.”
He, however, did not comment when
asked about party’s stand on the issue as the new authority is most likely to
increase the fare.
Meanwhile, senior Trinamool leader MukulRoy,
who replaced Trivedi as railway minister and later resigned after the party
pulled out of the UPA II government, was not available for comment. A text
message to his mobile phone seeking his comment on the setting up railway
tariff authority went unanswered.
Some party leaders, however, said the
Trinamool would oppose if there is a hike inrailway passenger fares. “The question of supporting
passenger fare hike does not arise,” he added.
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