Criminality Of Indian Railways

The Railway Budget was merged with the General Budget in 2017 by ModiSarkar. That was the door that opened to a lot of scams, destroying transparency, covered up corruption and implemented wanton loot-fares and changes that kept the public in the dark. No one gets to know what new trains are being introduced or what changes in fares were happening unless PM Narendra Modi flagged off trains. Some routes and trains (like Tejas Express) were also hived off to private companies without much knowledge to the public (although the idea itself may not be bad).

The scams got bigger under the cover of Covid after March 2020. The Railways changed the numbers of trains by removing the first digit and prefixing all trains with a “0” and calling them “Special trains”. The fares were hiked dramatically for no reason or rhyme whatsoever. In Sleeper Class and 3AC the fares were hiked claiming the middle berth was kept vacant for social distancing. Only a moron would imagine that instead of 8 berths, reducing it to 6 would create social distancing when the train itself would be packed with 54 berths with other wanton thugs and “unreserved” passengers anyway crowding the coaches. This went on for almost over a year till I ran a whole thread on this scam:

As the Covid problems eased in early 2021, the middle berths and seats were restored and tickets were being sold. However, the fares were not proportionally reduced. Because of the rush to travel and lower availability of seats/berths no one bothered to notice or complain about this scam. The fares of Superfast AC trains were also increased although food and linen services were completely dropped. What was the purpose of such a scheme? Only for Modi to loot the middle class for his stupid Soshit, Vanchit, Peedit nonsense:

After I raised these issues on Twitter, a BJP footsie magazine carried the same issues of railway fares loot. Not one Opposition party or mainstream coolie media ever raised this issue or pointed to this scam. A few days after these scams were exposed, the govt grandly announced the fares would be restored to pre-Covid days. But did they actually do so? Not really! There was just a token reduction in some fares but others continued as they were without any change. In fact, the dynamic fares and premium Tatkal fares got even worse. For a 3AC ticket with normal fare of 1800/- I once paid a premium Tatkal fare of 3000/- Thus, the Railways is not only a scamster but also a black marketeer:

It has to take jerks like Modi and Vaishnaw to claim higher fares were introduced to discourage people from avoidable travels. Where do these jerks get their thinking from? Even if people avoided travels due to Covid, there is always a huge rush for train tickets and the number of travellers does not go down. The sleeper coaches and unreserved coaches are packed like sardines any given day. This image of a reserved sleeper coach crowded with encroachers is a normal scene on most of the trains in India. It’s a horror that the govt covers up with lipstick nonsense of Modi flagging off luxury trains:

The reserved sleeper coach becomes an absolute fish market, especially if it’s day travel and all kinds of thugs, wanton encroachers, season ticket holders crowd the coaches like pigs in a barn. In short, in a coach for 72 passengers you could have as many as 200 people crowding the coach. So, where is the damn question of losing on fares when your train is running way beyond capacity at all times?

When you are busy looting and scamming people for your worthless doles, you are naturally going to compromise on safety, comfort and timeliness – the 3 things passengers want the most. This thread on Twitter lists the number of close shaves that Railways have had and accidents have been averted either by luck or by the presence of mind of the loco pilot. Safety cannot be left to luck and chance as GOI and Railways are doing. This tweet narrates the pathetic conditions in which sleeper class passengers have to travel with zero security and zero comfort. This video is from the same Coramandel Express that met with the tragedy at Balasore in Odisha.

There is corruption in Railways. There is incompetence. There is covering up of all these by Modi as he does with all other failures with – LIPSTICK. Time and again Modi launches the same Vande Bharat to give you the optical delusion that India has entered some fantasy island under his ministership. This worthless optical activity with a fancy train for the rich is to delude you into believing that India and Railways are going great guns whereas in reality train travel is still a horror for ordinary people. Citizens rightly mocked Modi for not immediately reacting to the Odisha tragedy because he acts like a station master flagging off trains so frequently.

Modi cancelled another Vande Bharat flagging off scheduled for June 4 after the Odisha crash. He then called for some grand high level meeting with a video presentation on the accident. Not satisfied that he had applied enough lipstick to show he is concerned, he then rushed to Balasore to do his PR work in the face of a tragedy. And, not to be left behind, Modi’s usual castard-coolies also spare no effort in applying more lipstick on him as this pathetic lout Pradhan does:

 

Accidents happen! The best of systems may sometimes see an accident. Sometimes it happens by an Act of God as they say in legal terms. But the Railways and Modi are culpable of criminal negligence, wanton loot of ordinary folks in fares, criminal condition of the travel in sleeper coaches and total negligence of safety measures. This is good enough reason to throw out Modi and his gang. Lipstick does not save people from the criminality of Railways. There is no transparency in the operations of Railways, the IRCTC site is nothing short of pathetic avarice with endless pop-ups. I guess, like with the everything in India, the Railways has also been running on “Ram Bharose” and may be pray each time before you board a train as the migrant worker is doing in the pic.

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Ponzi Optical Delusions

In “Wag the dog” the US President is plagued with sex scandals. So, they hire a “spin doctor” (Robert De Niro) to turn the tide. De Niro hires the services of a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to concoct a fake war in Albania with images of a young girl escaping bombing with her cat. Hoffman makes the fake movie with horrifying images which distracts the public from the sex scandal and brings back support for the President and his ratings go up.

Politicians are known to use all kinds of distractions to sway the public away from realities of life, scams and scandals and the keep the media constantly fed with a diet of dazzle and nonsense. “Wag the dog” almost appears similar to the story of Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky episode. During the scandal, Clinton bombed Sudan claiming intel reports of Osama Bin Laden hiding in a barn. Although facts later revealed Osama was indeed in Sudan at the time but what Clinton bombed was an ordinary medicine plant.

PM Narendra Modi is not different from wag the dog. His second term has been lack luster, full of bungling and failures. He therefore frequently runs Ponzi schemes like “Amrit Kaal” which is supposed to deliver heaven to India in 2047 or lipstick activities like flagging off every Vande Bharat train or flower girl shows like the one in Bangalore where choreographed, organized crowds were made to shower flowers on him. His dumb advisors went as far as putting up his own image on the vehicle. If Modi was removed from the vehicle, it would have looked like a funeral cortege in the last journey of a dead man:

As a consequence of such repulsive, opulent flower shows the BJP and Modi lost Karnataka. They not only lost but were thrashed badly by the voters so much that “MLA-Purchaser” Amit Shah is left with no room for his “MLA-shopping” to form a BJP govt through the bathroom window. But they won’t learn any lessons. After a day of mourning, Modi was back to the same old gimmicks. On his return from a 3-nation tour, the BJP organized a grand welcome for Modi at the airport as if he was Neil Armstrong returning from his Moon-landing. This is to make you believe that India is going great guns with the great PM of the world when reality is that Modi is a theatrical stooge playing to the tune of his Western and Islamist masters and deluding Hindus of being a great Hindu champion. None of the miseries of India has disappeared. Posing with swanky trains or airports or flower girl shows is to cover up the fact that much of India (especially the cramped, over populated metros) remains where it is – a large dump of garbage (Video: 1.06mins):

One of the biggest lies of Modi is that he was “Gareeb” and sold tea. Modi was never poor. He lived in a decent house, went to a regular school, acted in dramas, wore fancy dresses with bow-tie and all, acted in school dramas and the realms of such bogus stories are his fantasies. Ask the question – If this guy was really poor decades ago, how did he develop a taste for such opulence in everything? Whether cars, clothes, events, obsession with celebrities, obsession with the camera. All of this points to psychological disorder or unfulfilled cravings far removed from the job of a PM. You will NEVER find Modi with the poor or visiting poor villages or slums even for a mild campaign. It damages his image of having transformed India into some magical first world country where poverty, poor, unemployment, inflation, violence have all just disappeared. Instead, even when has to meet the poor, he will call them to an event on the stage and act as if he deeply respects the poor. Here’s his acting with poor old women:

At other times, Modi will pretend to be a Hindu and shout “Jai Shri Ram” or “Jai Bajrang Bali”. When the Congress in Karnataka threatened to ban “Bajrang Dal”, Modi grandly claimed it was an assault on Bajrang Bali. Such is his stupidity and twisting of Hindu sentiments for votes. People aren’t buying his nonsense anymore as sooner or later the shoe pinches and issues like LPG and pot-holed roads and economic slump are indeed pinching citizens. Modi believes he can gloss over such issues with flower girl shows and acting as if he is some “Designer Hindu” to fool Hindus. Hindus have suffered tremendously under his 9-year rule so far and even today Hindus in Manipur are being killed and driven out of their homes while Modi dances around with some Sengol which his sycophant ministers and media also keep driving as a major issue when it is not:

If you look at all the activities of Modi, they all cater to the upper middle class or the very rich. Vande Bharat is certainly not for the poor. The grand Varanasi cruise is also certainly not for the poor. The Seaplane service from Ahmedabad to Kevadia Colony (Sardar Statue) is also not for the poor. Although the seaplane service has since flopped and shut down, the singular obsession of Modi is to do such activities as if poverty and the poor have completely disappeared from India and you are now living in some European country with flashy cruises and TGV trains or Eurail. This excessive desire for bogus imagery has completely disconnected Modi from the common man and his problems:

Like I said before, Modi is a stooge of Western and Islamist interests. There are many actions and policies that will prove it and it’s a long list. One has to just imagine, how a non-diplomat guy like Bill Gates walks through the corridors of powers in India. Gates gets to meet RBI Governor, the President, the ministers crawl like insects for him, our disease control centres were opened for him as if he was inspecting them and most of all, a gasbag minister also makes Khichdi with him as if these nonsensical acts of crawling for a foreigner is what “Atmanirbhar” is all about:

Bill Gates surely doesn’t come to India to learn how to make Khichdi. He has his own agenda for many countries and Modi is an ideal stooge for him because Modi chases Western lipstick and accolades regardless of what is good for India. The loss in Karnataka has driven Modi to greater insanity in flower girl shows and optical delusions.

When he returned from a 3-nation trip, the BJP grandly arranged a welcome ceremony for him. And now, his PR gang has hired some Western writers to write grand tributes to him certifying his great leadership and India emerging as some super power. India will neither become a super power nor become a country of happy, economically well-off people. What kind of govt feeds 80cr beggars for over 3 years and still continuing? That single act defines what India is. Fantasy actors like Modi are detrimental to stark realities and to the future of India. All they care about is their own image and building a fake legacy that will crumble like a bad chocolate. Imagine a man who wears nice shirts and pants, puts on a nice jacket too and has his face wonderfully made up. But when you remove all the clothes and find a body full of warts and moles it will repel you. That’s what Modi is and has done to India. Fooled Indians for long with optical delusions while underneath the clothes the warts and moles are repulsive.

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