The Railways are a state within a state with the attitude of a village. Successive railway ministers in the past two decades, most notably Mamata Banerjee and Ram Vilas Paswan, have driven the Railways to rack and ruin.
The Indian Railways arouses conflicting emotions. The question everybody now wants to know is will Dinesh Trivedi - the Union Minister for Railways and the Trinamool Congress MP from Barrackpore be able to deliver an effective Budget?