New Delhi: A video has gone viral on social media in which a BJP leader, Laxmi Kanta Chawla, is ranting against the government as she said, “forget the bullet train, fix the existing ones first”.
In the five-minute video, Chawla, a BJP leader from Amritsar, who had been stuck on the Saryu-Yamuna train for more than 10 hours, is talking about the problems that she and the passengers had to face during the inordinately long train ride.
“This train was once known as the Flying mail. I don’t remember when it used to fly to its destination. Today it’s been 24 plus 8 hours in this train and we still haven’t reached our destination. It’s running 9 hours late,” she said the video.
Chawla was travelling in an AC-3 coach on the Saryu-Yamuna train when she recorded the video.
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“My appeal is to PM Modi and the government is, please have some pity on us common people. The trains are in such a dilapidated condition, the doors are broken, the latrine taps are broken, the toilet seats are broken… The train’s route had to be changed due to some reason. We have not been given any information. There is no food arrangement in the train for the people who have been on it for the last 10 hours,” she said.
“For God’s sake, forget bullet trains. Forget trains that run at 120kmph or 200 kmph. Fix those trains that are already there,” Chawla added.