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Vadodara/Anand: Launching a counter attack on the BJP, minister of state for railways Bharat Solanki on Monday blamed the state government for mismanagement of the state-run Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC).Ahead of the assembly elections, BJP has come out with an advertisement campaign, alleging that injustice had been meted out to Gujarat by the Centre, especially the railways. The ad claims that rail network in Gujarat has actually reduced over the years.Solanki, Congress MP from Anand, was in Anand to flag off two memu trains - Anand-Dahod and Anand-Gandhinagar."Bus tickets have turned costlier. There have been five hikes in bus fares in recent times. GSRTC has not started any new route while it has closed down old routes. Whose injustice is it? Will you blame the Centre for that also," said Solanki. Terming the BJP's ad campaign as malicious, Solanki said that in the last two years of his tenure, 33 trains were allotted to Gujarat and under the UPA government 61 new trains were started from the state.Addressing a gathering, he promised that Anand railway station will soon have an escalator facility.