‘Ready to contest poll if ticket is given’: Janardhana Poojary
Mangaluru, September 9: Former union finance minister and senior Congress leader Janardhana Poojary said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should take steps to slash fuel prices which were sky-rocketed due to illegal storage of petroleum products in the country.
Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, Poojary said that those who store petrol and diesel illegally should be jailed. If the government took such a step, then the price would be automatically reduced, he said.
The Congress which has given bandh call should handle its impact. The Supreme Court has already made it clear that those who call for bandh should bear the loss caused due to bandh. It was very easy for both the Congress and BJP to give bandh calls. But who would compensate the loss worth thousands of crores revenue? If a case was filed against it, no one could escape from it, he said.
When he was the Union Finance Minister, he had tried to minimize the central excise duty. But later, he understood that it was his mistake. It was not right to slash the cess of the state on fuel, he said.
‘Ready to contest if ticket is given’
If the Congress high command assured him the ticket for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election, he would contest the poll. He might contest the election or might not, Poojary said.
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Fire in coach of New Delhi-Chennai express train; no casualty
Nagpur (PTI): A coach of the New Delhi-Chennai Grant Trunk Express caught fire in Maharashtra's Wardha district on Tuesday morning, railway officials said.
There were no casualties, they said.
Train 12616 New Delhi-Chennai (Tambaram) Grant Trunk Express left from Nagpur in the morning. While it was heading towards Sindi railway station in Wardha, smoke was detected in the last guard coach of the train at 11.09 am, Central Railway spokesperson Sanjay Muley told PTI.
The train was stopped on the Sindi-Tuljapur section, the affected coach was detached immediately, and the fire brigade was called, he said.
All passengers in the train and the coach concerned were safe, the official said.
The cause of the fire will be known after a detailed investigation.
The train will resume its journey in some time without the affected coach, the official added.
