Rail Budget 2013: Bansal placates deities of Rae Bareli, Amethi

When Pawan Kumar Bansal rose to present his maiden Rail Budget today, people looked to him expectantly. After all, it was after 17 years that the railway ministry had returned to the Congress, that too just a year ahead of parliamentary elections. Bansal did the job he was tasked to do by his political bosses: make the right statements about passenger safety and amenities at stations and inside the trains; make e-ticketing more user-friendly; make the right noises about losses and financial viability so that people...

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