FUTURIST RAIL BUDGET

It's a futurist rail budget. They didn't mollycoddle you this time. No sops for the middle and lower classes. No Janta trains this time. No socialist fanfare to entice the masses. The fares and hikes came well before the budget. The budget itself was an exercise in financial and management initiative. It pushed the envelope just more further.
The vision is of a modern India. An international India. The selling point of the budget seems to be the bullet train. It builds the theme of the budget. There are talks of FDI and PPP. Railway stations which will look like Airport lounges. Online bookings for platform tickets and even general bogies asserts the aspirations of Hoi Polloi. Forget not, that the era of entitlement is over. Aspirations have been crowned the king.

HSGPC

The demand for seperate SGPC for Haryana Sikh community has become a tool for political parties to gain milage in the run for the state hustings. State Congress had espoused the cause for a sepearte committee. That had opened a veritable pandora box. Opposing Sikh factions are clashing on the issue.
Congress seks to divide and rule. It's strategy is to drive a wedge in the sikh vote bank and weaken the INLD mass base. It also seeks to undermine the Badal group's supremacy over the Haryana Committee. A seperate HSGPC will not only weaken BadalGroup's hold over Haryana sikhs. It will question its undiluted supremacy in Himachal and Punjab too. Haryana, Punjab and Himachal are the three states where Badal Group's writ runs supreme.