No kidding, Lalu’s big daddy

For all his preoccupation with the railway budget on Friday, Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad took pains to ensure that a lonely, ailing baby goat would soon be reunited with its mother, reports MR Venkatesh.

For all his preoccupation with the railway budget on Friday, Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad took pains to ensure that a lonely, ailing baby goat would soon be reunited with its mother.

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The kid was presented to Prasad last week when he visited Tiruchendur, a pilgrim town 600 km from Chennai, to flag off a new, bi- weekly train from there to Delhi.

The railway minister took the kid back with him. But being only a few weeks old, the kid, deprived of its mother’s milk, promptly fell ill.

Prasad then directed railway officials to locate the goat’s mother. She was traced to a village in Tuticorin district on Thursday.

“This evening, she left Madurai by train to join her baby,” a source close to the development revealed.

Railway officials confirmed that Prasad had been gifted a kid, but refused to comment on whether its mother had been dispatched to join it.