Indian People in Rail Transport - Indian Railways Officers, Railway Ministers of India, Railway Officers in British India, Lal Bahadur Shastri (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Indian Railways officers, Railway Ministers of India, Railway officers in British India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, George Fernandes, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Jagjivan Ram, Everard Calthrop, Nitish Kumar, George Turnbull, Gulzarilal Nanda, Ram Vilas Paswan, Basanta Kumar De, Suresh Kalmadi, E. Sreedharan, Madhavrao Scindia, Lalit Narayan Mishra, Sardar Swaran Singh, Bansi Lal, Pares Chandra Datta, William Spottiswoode Trevor, William Beckett, Panampilly Govinda Menon, Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, Sarat Datta Gupta, Madhu Dandavate, Donald Friell McLeod, C. M. Poonacha, Minister of Railways, John Mathai, C. K. Jaffer Sheriff, Ajit Chandra Chatterjee, Bal Ram Nanda, Vivek Sahai. Excerpt: George Mathew Fernandes (born on 3 June 1930) is an Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He is a key member of the Janata Dal (United), and was the founder of the Samata Party. He has held several ministerial portfolios including communications, industry, railways, and defence, and was the only Christian minister in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet. A native of Mangalore, Fernandes was sent to Bangalore in 1946 to be trained as a priest. He moved to Bombay in 1949, and joined the socialist trade union movement. As a fiery trade union leader, Fernandes organised many strikes and bandhs in Bombay in the 1950s and 1960s. The most notable agitation he organised was the 1974 Railway strike, when he was President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation. Fernandes went underground during the Emergency era (1975), as he took on then prime minister Indira Gandhi for imposing a state of emergency, but was arrested in 1976, and tried in the infamous Baroda dynamite case. After Emergency was lifted, he won the Muz...