Bengaluru Metro Mess: Cong Trapped in Its Own Claims
The Bengaluru Metro fare controversy has exposed not the cruelty of ticket prices but the **carelessness of Congress politics**. What should have been a straightforward administrative issue has been turned into a maze of contradictions, half-truths, and convenient amnesia — all designed to claim credit without accepting responsibility. Only days ago, the Congress government in Karnataka spoke the language of law. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah explained that Metro fares are fixed by the Centre through the Fare Fixation Committee under the Metro Railways Act. The state, he said, cannot dictate rates; at best, it can request relief. This position was legally sound, constitutionally accurate, and politically inconvenient. Then came Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who decided that legality was optional. According to him, the Karnataka government alone stopped the fare hike and the Centre has no role whatsoever. Delhi, in this version of reality, is powerless; the state is supreme; and ...
