In the wake of the Odisha railway tragedy, senior Congress leader M. Veerappa Moily on June 6 said that the clubbing of the Railway Budget with the Union Budget in 2017 was a "major blunder" of the NDA Government and called for bringing back the practice of having separate budgets.
Taking a swipe at the government, Mr. Moily said that they are talking of bullet trains when the basics have not been rectified nor sufficient modernisation and technology has been put in place.