PIB calls Rahul Gandhi's assertion about "railway privatisation" in a tweet "wrong."

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• Nov 13, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

Digital Desk: On Sunday, the Press Information Bureau stated that
allegations of railroad privatisation are wholly untrue. The PIB Fact Check's
Twitter account shared a screenshot of Rahul Gandhi's post from yesterday, which
stated that 151 Indian Railways trains had been privatised. "This is
untrue and completely without merit. The Railways have not sold any of their
assets, "It read.

On Saturday,
Rahul Gandhi tweeted a video from his present campaign and the following message:
"India is connected by rail, which serves 2.5 billion passengers every day
and employs 12 lakh people. Pradhanmantri Ji, the railroad is a national asset.
Avoid privatising it. Consolidate it. Never sell it."

Rahul Gandhi may
be seen talking with people in the attached video while on his Bharat Jodo
Yatra in Telangana. Some of them were railroad unionists who came to Rahul
Gandhi's office to deliver a memo opposing "railway privatisation."

What area of
Indian Railways is being privatised? Rahul Gandhi enquired while moving.
Railway stations, workshops, hospitals, and businesses would all be privatised,
according to Bharani Bhanu Prasad, a South Central Railway Employees' Sangh
member.

"When do
they intend to carry this out? Do they already proceed slowly? questioned Rahul
Gandhi. Members said, "Yes, sir."

"To whom are
they distributing it? Are they large or small businesses? questioned Rahul
Gandhi. As heard in the video, the union members uttered the phrase "big
companies," together. They claimed that private trains were already in use
in India.

One of the attendees stated, "151 trains have been
privatised."

After that, a 2019 newspaper headline was displayed in the video.

The railway union members said in the video that they saw Rahul
Gandhi and conveyed the "privatisation" of the railways to him.
"We have never seen or heard of privatisation in the 170-year history of
the Indian Railways. Our opposition to privatisation "One of the
participants commented.