Rly profits shown by Lalu are 'farce', alleges Nitish

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Posted: Monday, Jun 29, 2009 at 1656 hrs IST
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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday urged Railway minister Mamata Banerjee to order a high-level inquiry into alleged "jugglery" of figures in profits between 2005-06 and 2008-09 during her predecessor Lalu Prasad's tenure.

"It's high time that the railway minister ordered a high-level probe into her predecessor's claim of Railways earning huge profits successively during his stint at the Rail Bhavan," Kumar, a former railway minister in the Vajpayee cabinet, told reporters in Patna.

"I'm confident that the profits shown by Lalu Prasad after he took charge of the Railway ministry are a farce. The profits have been orchestrated by jugglery of figures at the cost of passengers," Kumar said.

Kumar said the 'Tatkal' scheme of the Railways for advance reservation introduced during Prasad's tenure should also be probed.

It should also be found out why high freight charges were being levied on consignments when the railway minister had announced that there would not be a hike.

He also appealed to Banerjee to speed up pending railway projects in Bihar, including a coach factory at Harnaut in Nawada, construction of a rail-cum-road bridge over river Ganga connecting Digha to Sonepur, besides a river bridge in Munger and another in Supaul.

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» LALU A JUGGLARER

Posted by AMBIKA P MISHRA on 2009-08-04 05:26:59.113467+05:30
LALU HAD BEEN MISLEADING NOT ONLY INDIAN PEOPLE BUT ALSO THE WHOLE WORLD BY JUGGLARRY OF FIGURES, SHOWING PROFIT IN INDIAN RAILWAYS UNDER THE NOSE OF Dr MANMOHAN SINGH, WHO IS HIMSELF A KNOWN ECONOMIST; CONSECUTIVELY FOR FIVE YEARS.THE MOST SURPRISING ASPECT OF HIS JUGGLARY IS THAT EVEN RPUTED MANAGEMENT SCHOOLS LIKE IIM AHMEDABAD

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» Why the media eugolised Lalu, the fraud.

Posted by Prasad on 2009-07-08 18:22:25.078958+05:30
Lalu was praised by media to the skies. Now the truth is out of the bag. Will the media including Indian express now expose his fraud and express apology to its readers for misleading them just to keep Sonia happy. Media built up lalu's image and today he has turbed out to be a big fraudster. Shame on our biased media.

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» Sh. Lalu Jee and Railway

Posted by S.L.Kaul on 2009-07-03 15:26:17.537693+05:30
Dear Sir, I do not have any resentment with Mr. Lalu Jee for misleading and overloading the Railway Engines and Railway Lines. But I always recall the smiles of Mr. Manmohan Singh Jee and Mrs. Sonia Gandhi while Mr. Lalu Jee was sarcastic about his predecessors and other Political parties or else where those smiles for the deceit they were in know of misleading Railway Budget at that time

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» Ya.. it was a farce

Posted by Suraj on 2009-07-01 09:06:33.070224+05:30
Lalu did nothing ... he just sat on the results of reforms taken in earlier years. It was bogus. But difficult for Mamta to cope up with it ... as it may actually a loss.

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» rail ministry

Posted by shyam on 2009-06-30 16:16:31.847087+05:30
It is high time such a probe be ordered and truth brought out inasmuch as public gets fooloed by these tall claims and in reality there is no profit. Will not be surprised if overtakes Satyam episode.

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» LALOO, LALOO, LALOO

Posted by AS on 2009-06-30 10:41:30.729297+05:30
LALOO IS A REINCARNATION OF A PIG. WHAT ELSE U CAN EXPECT FROM HIM.

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» All Biharis are great jokers

Posted by Murtuza Mosoavi on 2009-06-29 21:51:25.266135+05:30
One and another CM of Bihar were looters and they only itnerst to make fool to the poor illetrates. Now Nitish were using the same tactics of Modi CM (Useless, for nothing)only burden to the coutnry. Why he want to invistigate the old issues bcoz want to be CM for long time? And again make BJP healtheist party for self gain?

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» Bihari to the core

Posted by Sumangal Pande on 2009-06-29 17:51:21.402886+05:30
Vow ! What a guy this Lalu has been. Did some one say " You can not fool them all all the time"? Here's an exception ! Well done Lalu, what a magician you have been at our expenses, though. You are fit to be in "Crime Files" on "Mobsters" of the worst kinds. This man talks, walks, sleeps, eats, looks a born gangster. What else can be expected if you give the strings in his hands? Biharis, you elected this man? Shame on you, learn to clean up your own backyard first, not of spoiling the show everywhere else. Poor creatures, with such leaders

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