India, Nov. 10 -- Rajya Sabha MPs Kapil Sibal and AD Singh on Sunday alleged "four special trains" were run from Haryana to Bihar on November 3 carrying 6,000 people, and asked the railway minister to clarify the purpose for operating those during the assembly polls and who paid for them.

Responding to their claims, the Railway Ministry said, "This festival season, the railways is running 12,000 special trains; 10,700 special trains are scheduled and about 2000 trains are unscheduled. We are operating war rooms at three levels, divisional, zonal, and Railway board level."

"Whenever there is a sudden rush of passengers at any station, we immediately put into service unscheduled special trains," the ministry said.

Independent MP Sibal an...