Politics not a career for me: Dinesh Trivedi

NEW DELHI: Former railway minister Dinesh Trivedi, who was forced to quit over raising fares in the rail Budget, on Friday claimed that the PM would never have asked him to step down and would have preferred to retain him in the Cabinet even if it meant losing Trinamool Congress\'s support. He insisted that he resigned on his own to save UPA from the trouble.



Trinamool MP, however, remained evasive on joining Congress, saying \"I take life as it comes. Politics for me is not a career.\"



Speaking to a TV channel, he replied in the affirmative when asked if the PM would have preferred to retain him at the cost of losing TMC\'s support and the government possibly collapsing. \"That is a fact,\" Trivedi said.



Referring to PM Singh\'s statement in Parliament that he \"regretted\" his resignation, he said, he was \"communicated\" that the PM would have never asked for his resignation. \"Let\'s not get into details,\" he said, when asked if the communication came from a reliable person. \"I am not going to talk about things at all. If I say something, I stand by it.\"



Trivedi also dismissed the suggestion that he resigned after getting indications from the PMO and the Congress and insisted he stepped down to avoid putting the government into a quandary.



\"There is no way... no indication from any quarter. And the Congress party would never have asked neither the PM would have asked... if I had not resigned on that particular evening (last Sunday), I could have brought uncertainty to the government itself and that is not my job,\" he added.



Trivedi said he tendered his resignation because his party and its leader Mamata Banerjee had asked him to do so.


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