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Communist MP Su Venkatesan peddles false propaganda against Centre’s budget allocation for Southern Railways

February 5, 2022
The Commune

CPI(M) Lok Sabha MP Su Venkatesan, has stirred another controversy, by quoting wrong data in order to spread false propaganda about the budget allocations of the Central Government. In a tweet, he had mentioned the budget allocated for New line/Gauge Conversion projects  for the Railways. In his tweet, he had written in Tamil, “The budget allocated for the Northern Railway is 14,349 crores. For the Southern Railways it is 59 crores. The words discrimination and partiality is not enough.”

However, the truth is that the budget allocated for Tamil Nadu Railways this year is ₹3,865 crores. This is 340% more than the 2009-2014 average. Also, the Modi government has allocated ₹125 crores for the Madurai Bodinayakanur project.

A Twitterati shared an image that shows the breakup of the allocation of funds for Tamil Nadu Railways, New line/Gauge Conversion projects. The split up shows that ₹59 crores is allocated for the Rameshwaram-Dhanushkodi line alone. Apart from the Bodinayakanur project, ₹121.80 crore is allocated for the Velankanni-Tiruturaipundi line. Another ₹54.2 crores is allocated for the Chennai Beach to Chennai Egmore line.

It is to be noted that the Southern Railway consists of only Tamil Nadu and Kerala. There are 16 different zones similar to the Southern Railway, for which funds are allocated by the Central Government.

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