321. The highest leaders and ministers of the Marxist Party are angry at not being able to create the K-Rail and make money! Isn't Pinarayi Vijayan's disappointment in not becoming a railway king in his own right coming out as mourning?

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The highest leaders and ministers of the Marxist Party are angry at not being able to create the K-Rail and make money! Isn't Pinarayi Vijayan's disappointment in not becoming a railway king in his own right coming out as mourning?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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The anger of the top leaders and state ministers of the Marxist Party in Kerala are fuming with the disappointment of not being able to make money through their dreamed up project Kerala Rail or the K-Rail as it is known now and become infamous! It never went beyond the drawing board. Let the Vande Bharat train of the Central Government and the Indian Railways run at any speed, let it run high speed or slow, what is it to them? They want to construct their own railway lines, import their own trains from Japan (all for commissions!), and operate their own rails so that they can make their own money and traffick their own drugs as much as they want at their own liberty.

If you take a look at the names of those who abuse the central government’s Vande Bharat train, you will know who are eagerly waiting for the K-Rail money! A train is a train anyway: is it useful for Kerala, is it doing any harm to the people of Kerala? Whether BJP’s Narendra Modi gave it or whoever gave it, it is one what Kerala needs, isn't it? In fact, it is not Narendra Modi's but the Indian Railways’ gift to the people of Kerala. Isn't it the Indian Railway that has run and is still running all the trains in the history of Kerala? Isn't it the soreness and hurt of the shattering of the Marxist leader and chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan's longing for becoming a railway king in his own right that comes out through the lamentation and greedy moans of these money-grubbers against the newly introduced and popular Vande Bharat trains of the Indian Railways in Kerala?

As far as the common people of Kerala are concerned, what they want is not faster and more comfortable trains, but more number of trains. And they need a lot of them. It is the crowded journey of common people in trains that has to be avoided, but unfortunately there is no one there to demand it. As for leaders, they look for comfort and speed in trains. That's why they covet such trains and demand them and they get them too from other politicians like them at the centre. Their needs and the needs of the people are not compatible.

A leader of the centre-ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, and a former MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Mr. E. Sreedharan, an expert railway engineer himself who proposed these high speed trains in the beginning, said in the current condition of the railways in Kerala, after the necessary construction and modification works in the railway lines are over, it will take at least 10 years for trains to run at a speed of more than 80 km per hour, and that, therefore, engaging in Kerala these super trains which are made at a high cost to run at speeds of 180 km/h and above is foolishness. And what he says is right too. But the common people of Kerala have not asked for such high-speed trains to run in Kerala. It was the leaders who demanded them. If it is not for making money by constructing rails, why don’t they go by plane instead of in trains as there is not much cost difference? They just need to tell only their needs, not the people’s needs. If the people want high-speed trains, the people will begin to demand them which they have not! If they demand, then we can think about creating them. The people also are people like you, they too think a little ahead of time like you say you do, you ignorant senseless money greedy....!

Written on 16 April 2023 and first published on: 12 July 2024

Original article in Malayalam written on 16 April 2023 and first published on: 17 April 2023

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