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

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




    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.