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Resentment against hike in bus fare mounting in Bhopal

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NK SINGH Though a Govt. directive has frustrated the earlier efforts of the MPSRTC to increase the city bus fares by as much as 300 per cent, the public resent even the 25 per cent hike. It is "totally unjust, uncalled for and arbitrary", this is the consensus that has emerged from an opinion conducted by "Commoner" among a cross-section of politicians, public men, trade union leaders, and last but not least, the common bus travelling public. However, a section of the people held, that an average passenger would not grudge a slight pinche in his pocket provided the MPSRTC toned up its services. But far from being satisfactory, the MPSRTC-run city bus service in the capital is an endless tale of woe. Hours of long waiting, over-crowding people clinging to window panes frequent breakdowns, age-old fleet of buses, unimaginative routes and the attitude of passengers one can be patient only when he is sure to get into the next bus are some of the ills plaguing the city b...

MP'S FEVICOL MINISTER

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DB Post 14 May 2016 NK SINGH Politics is full of paradoxes. BJP can boast of someone like Anil Dave, epitome of integrity and probity in public life. The same party harbours and nurtures someone like Gyan Singh, honourable MP from Shahdol, now known as the Fevicol Minister of Shivraj cabinet. The curious case of Gyan Singh has no parallel in India’s parliamentary history . He brazenly continues as a minister in Madhya Pradesh Government despite resigning his seat in the State assembly almost six months ago. It is a classic case study of politicians’ unbridled lust for power. It also symbolises BJP’s metamorphosis from a party with a difference to a party that is hardly different. The bare facts first, for the uninitiated. Gyan Singh, who is Tribal Welfare Minister in Shivraj cabinet, contested and won Lok Sabha by-election from Shahdol last November. The election was necessitated due to death of the then BJP MP Dalpat Singh Paraste. Consequently, Gyan Singh res...