Lalu to gift a railway division to his home district

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former railways minister Lalu Prasad Tuesday urged his successor Mamata Banerjee to prepare a report on his tenure within seven days and added that he was prepared to apologise to the nation if any irregularities were found. "Within seven days, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials, railway officials and planning commission officials should be called and a report should be published on my tenure, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad said in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on the railway budget.

June 2nd, 2009 PATNA - Following the incidents of torching of trains in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday had a verbal duel with former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and accused his decision of introducing numerous halts in the state as the main reason behind the violence. "The Railways, in the previous government, functioned in Lalu's style.

May 19th, 2009 PATNA - Now that he has ceased to be railways minister, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has lost out on some of the trappings that go along with the senior position. The security cover of the Railway Protection Force has been withdrawn from his Patna residence, official sources said Tuesday.

May 17th, 2009 PATNA - In a magnanimous gesture to reach out to her estranged ally and Union Railway minister, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Sunday called up Railway Minister Lalu Prasad requesting him to attend the Cabinet meet scheduled for Monday. "UPA chairperson rang up the Railway Minister last evening and requested him to attend a meeting of the union Cabinet on Monday," his private secretary Bhola Yadav said here on Sunday.

May 16th, 2009 PATNA - Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad was trailing in the Saran constituency but leading Pataliputra, according to early trends available. Counting of votes for all the 40 parliamentary seats in Bihar began simultaneously in all district headquarters across the state Saturday with the postal ballots being tabulated in the first round.

April 17th, 2009 PATNA - Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Friday filed his nomination papers from Bihar's Patliputra constituency for the Lok Sabha polls. Lalu Prasad filed his papers at the district administration office here.

April 14th, 2009 RANCHI - The Election Commission Tuesday issued notice to Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his pilot Jagjit Singh for the unauthorised landing of a helicopter in a Jharkhand school last week. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief has been asked to submit his reply by Wednesday, 4 p.m., said an official of the Election Commission.

April 11th, 2009 PATNA - A petition has been filed against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in the high court here, seeking his removal from the central ministry for his threatening remarks against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Varun Gandhi. The public interest litigation (PIL) petition was filed Friday by S.N.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Railway Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Sunday said that if he were the country's home minister, Varun Gandhi would have been jailed for his speeches in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit constituency. 'Had I been the home minister, I would have put Varun Gandhi behind the bars,' Lalu Prasad told reporters here.

March 10th, 2009 PATNA - A Bihar court has ordered that the police file a case against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad for the collapse of a railway overbridge under construction in Muzaffarpur district in February. The collapse left four people dead.

March 3rd, 2009 PATNA - Admirers of Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi are building a temple dedicated to the couple in Bihar. It will come up in a village in Kaimur district, about 150 km from here.

February 16th, 2009 PATNA - A case was filed in a Bihar court Tuesday against Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and five officials of Indian Railway Construction Corporation (IRCON) following the collapse of a bridge under construction over a rail line in Muzaffarpur district Monday. Three people were killed and four injured Monday when the bridge under construction collapsed at Amgola in the district, 70 km from the state capital.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The financial transformation of the Indian Railways - which registered a huge turnover this fiscal - is different from the private sector that resorts to 'anti-people measures', Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav claimed while presenting the interim railway budget in the Lok Sabha Friday. 'The transformation of the railways is fundamentally different from the financial turnaround witnessed in private sector companies,' Lalu said in his budget speech here.

January 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Monday announced a compensation of Rs.100,000 to the next of kin of the 12 people killed in a rail accident in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh a day earlier. The accident, at Unchahar in Rae Bareli distict, occurred when a tractor-trolley was hit by the Kanpur-Allahabad passenger train while passing through an unmanned railway crossing level crossing.

January 22nd, 2009 RANCHI - Indian Railways Friday paid tributes to freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose by renaming a railway station in Jharkhand after him. Railways Minister Lalu Prasad announced the new name of the Gomo railway station that comes under the Dhanbad railway division.