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BJD, Sena unhappy over Rail Budget Wednesday, February 28, 2001

NEW DELHI (Narad Online): The NDA government is in for fresh trouble as two of its key allies the Biju Janata Dal and the Shiv Sena on Tuesday voiced their resentment over the "raw deal" meted out to Orissa and Maharashtra in the Rail Budget.

The BJD was furious over the Rail Budget, threatening to review its alliance with the NDA. The BJD chief and Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that despite his submission of a memorandum to the Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee about the state's requirement, the Rail Budget "has not done justice to Orissa."

Patnaik said as against his request for an allotment of Rs 505 crore for railway projects in the state, only Rs 179 crore has been provided in the budget, adding "We will not take this lying low and fight it out with the Centre".

The BJD Parliamentary Party met here resenting the "discrimination" in the Rail Budget and decided to ask the party president to take a decision on continuance in the NDA.

In Mumbai, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray expressed unhappiness over the "raw deal" meted out to Maharashtra in the Railway Budget and threatened that his party would launch an agitation over the issue.

A group of BJD MPs held a dharna at the entrance of Parliament House to register their protests while activists of the CPI, CPI(M) and Janata Dal (S) began a rail-roko stir blocking movement of trains at several places in Orissa protesting the "discrimination" to the state in the Railway Budget.

 

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