Lalu rejects charge of juggling Rly figures

Prasad repeated his demand for bringing out the white paper on working of Railways under his tenure within seven days.

“Will anybody will be able make statistics of earning through jugglery. It is completely wrong… That’s why I said bring white paper within seven days and see all records. What is there to fear if one is true,” he added.

Prasad accused Banerjee of failing to give dividend to railway employees during her previous stint as Railway Minister.

On the surplus funds with the Railways which Prasad had put at Rs 90,000 crore,Banerjee had yesterday said that a corpus of Rs 8,361 crore remained after expenditure of Rs 13,600 crore on account of Pay Commission award last year and Rs 2,600 crore this year.

It was seen as undermining Prasad’s claims. The RJD leader sought to clear the issue of surplus funds saying he had mentioned it keeping the expenditure amount out of it. “Let the white paper come before the House. My figures are correct,she (Banerjee) will give her figures. It will be clear what is in her mind. If there is some confusion,it should be cleared,” Prasad added.

On the issue of Kosi floods,Prasad demanded that the Centre give compensation for the damage caused by the deluge.

Prasad also sought to downplay the talk of not being allotted his previous seat in the front row of Lok Sabha or his office room in the Parliament being taken away.

“My strength is less. Rooms are allotted in Parliament to parties according to their strength.

“We have met the Speaker saying that our number is eight – four here (Lok Sabha) and four there (Rajya Sabha).

Our room is already small and hence we should be allowed to keep it,” he said.

“It is being said that Lalu will get a seat in the back rows. What differences does it make? Lalu is not going to be lost with this,” he added.