Lalu - The Charisma!

Other than sharing a common name, Lalu Prasad Yadav and myself were miles apart till a few years ago (my pet name at house is Lalu btw). In fact, I hated politics just because of this so called buffoon from Bihar whose famous video of that along with a cow was flashed across TV screens (even today, a news channels uses that video footage).

But a lot changed, when I read and heard about his miraculous turnaround of the Indian railways since he became the railway chief. As most of the other goverment run organizations, the Indian Railways was running at a huge loss and was at the verge of bankruptcy when he took charge. Rail accidents were happening every other day and red tapism and beauracracy was at its highest inflection point!

This uneducated, but worldly wise man pulled the right strings and adopted some strategic changes to the railways and made it turn around and become profitable. This rags to riches story has now become a case study at IIM Ahmedabad, where Lalu recently visited to give a lecture.

Hats off to you Lalu! Jab tak rahega samosein mein aaloo, tab thak rahega railways mein laloo :-)