An inquiry by a common man puts 1,10,000 crore project on Halt?
After RTI (Right to Information) query revealed that more than 40% of seats in the ‘Mumbai-Ahmedabad’ corridor have gone empty incurring a loss of 30 Crores to the Western Railways in just 3 months. This brings the loss to 10 Crores per month, which is staggering. And interestingly, WR also confirmed that it has no idea of introducing any more new trains in between this corridor which is already red (maxed out).
Anil Galgali, the activist who filed the RTI said that ‘It looks like Mr. Modi Ji has not done enough homework. With already incurring losses at 10 crores per month for the WR, Modi is proposing a 1 Lakh crore Bullet Train project in this corridor. No way could this be feasible.’
Anil further went on to add that, ‘Shatabdi Express which used to run packed on all seasons is incurring heavy losses. Out of 7,505 seats in its Executive Chair class, only 1,469 are booked. While the revenue estimates were 1.45 Crores, it managed to only accumulate 26.41 Lakhs as revenue during the last quarter’.
‘With people preferring air travel and improved road travel, it’s the time for the BJP government and Modi Ji to review the aspect of Bullet train, before it becomes a white elephant on the taxpayers,’ said the RTI activist.
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The news is that former Congress MP, Ramya has been handed over the task of maintaining the Congress Party’s Social Media. And interestingly, Ramya replaced Bhupinder Singh Hooda (Haryana former CM’s son) and MP Dipendhar Singh Hooda. After being handed over the responsibility, Ramya has called out all the employees working there and sorted out their issues right-and-then itself.
She has also increased the staff from 20 to 100 and ensured that 85% of the staff would be women. After Ramya has taken responsibility 6 months ago, there has been a positive trend in Congress Party’s online feed. Instead of attacking Modi directly, Ramya’s team worked towards to find hardships faced by common people because of Modi’s schemes.
It’s once again clear that Prakash Raj doesn’t take backfoot when it comes to speaking what he feels. ‘I admire them as great actors. But politics is a different ball game. It’s not charisma that works in politics. The understanding of the current situation, difficulties, and hardships of the people is important. And I would vote for someone who I feel can solve these problems.’
He further adds, ‘Stars shouldn’t consider themselves as born leaders. They can’t lead in politics that way. It’s the people’s mandate that is going to make them as leaders. It is very important to stay close to the common man to better understand his life and his sufferings. This is my personal view and I hold on to it.’
With the current situation in Tamil politics, it’s hard to take sides on who would be forming the government post the next elections.
Going by the reports, knowing that Rahul Gandhi would be visiting Telangana in few more days owing to a meeting, and the high command thought to carry our ‘inclusion of Revanth Reddy’ in the presence of Rahul in Telangana itself, as a low key event. Few Telangana Congress leaders who are already jealous about the prominence of Revanth Reddy are known to be behind this episode.
When few sections of the leaders pressuring the high command over the prominence Revanth Reddy is being given in the Congress, Revanth Reddy did outwit them with his number 9 sentiment. To ensure that he gets enough prominence and attention, he planned in a way that, along with him 18 others would join the Congress party in presence of the high command in Delhi itself. This event did become create a buzz both at the center and the state.
Along with Revanth Reddy, leaders like Vem Narendra Reddy, Seethakka, Vijay Ramana Rao, Arikela Narsareddy, Boda Janardhan, Soyam Bapu Rao, Ramesh Reddy, Dhommati Sambhayya, Thotakoora Jaanayya, Kavvampalli Sathyanarayana, Medipalli Sathyam, Haripriya Nayak, Balya Nayak, Raja Ram Yadav and three more leaders representing Osmania Jak leaders have joined Congress in presence of Rahul Gandhi.
