Rail fare hike difficult but correct decision: Jaitley
"The Railway minister has taken a difficult but a correct decision," Jaitley said in a Facebook post titled 'The Truth of Railway Fare Hike'.
He said India should decide whether they would see a 'world class' Railway or a 'ramshackled ' one.
"A loss making railway will provide below-par services. It will eventually not even have the resources to pay its’ bill. India must decide whether it wants a world class Railway or a ramshackled one," the Minister said.
Workers of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday halted a train to halt to protest the rail fare hike announced by the Centre.
The SP activists brought the Ganga Gomti Express train to a halt while it was speeding towards Lucknow.
Several people were reportedly injured as SP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
workers clashed in Lucknow.
Clashes reportedly started after the SP workers burned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's effigy over the issue of Railway prices hike. BJP workers protested against SP workers move to burn effigies and thus clash broke out between the workers of both the parties.
SP workers also protested against the issue in Allahabad and Varanasi while Congress demonstrated in Kanpur, reports said.
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