Hostage Episode

Siege of Rajdhani Express!
No body has ever imagined train journey could be as hazardous in a state
like West Bengal. Passengers in Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express would
perhaps never forget the ordeal they faced on October 27,2009.Some
may have the experience of robbery in train compartments or of other
hazards , but few can claim the passengers in the train were
held hostage for some time, mercifully not long. Perhaps holding all
the passengers in a train as hostage is a unique phenomenon and may be the
first of its kind in the history of Indian railways. However, for air passengers it’s more or less a common incident. It’s ill luck for TMC supremo who’s incidentally the Railway Minster, such an uncommon incident has taken place in her regime. She is known to have a strong reservation, if not hate, against the way the state’s being ruled by the present govt but what an irony of fate that it was the local administration that successfully helped put an end to the hostage episode!