Delhi Confidential: Change Of Plans

Return Gift

During survey tours of lasting committees, MPs are often talented hampers arsenic a invited motion by the hosts. However, CPI-ML MP Sudama Prasad took a beardown objection to a acquisition container fixed precocious during a travel to Bengaluru, Tirupati and Hyderabad arsenic portion of a survey circuit of the Standing Committee of Railways. According to a missive helium wrote to C M Ramesh, the president of the panel, each acquisition hamper fixed by Rail India Technical and Economic Service and Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd had 1-gram golden coin and 100-gram metallic artifact successful them. Prasad, who returned the bag, said helium was aggravated due to the fact that specified gifts were being fixed to MPs astatine a clip erstwhile passengers were facing aggregate challenges, including information and expanding fares, and sanitation workers astatine railway stations were not being paid due wages. Prasad’s basal not lone near the different MPs embarrassed, but besides confused the railway officials astir however to grip the situation.

Green Bond

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was BJP’s in-charge for Jharkhand Assembly elections, planted 50 saplings during his visits to the authorities successful the past 3 months. Before leaving for Delhi connected Thursday, helium planted saplings successful Nivaranpur, Ranchi. According to his associates, Chouhan has been diligently planting a sapling each time for the past 3 years. He has already planted implicit 4,000 saplings.