Ethos - there may be two reasons: 1. Overnight one cannot make a turnaround in any loss making Industry - the positive turnaround may be the result of the previous Minister/government who have put in their efforts to come out with a strategy to revive the loss making Railways. 2. No doubt, Laloo is very smart (you need not get educated in IIMs, ISBs to be smart to understand a system which functions in front of you - just use the brain and IQ). He studied the proposals and gave a nod to implement the same (may be he was not able to come out with an alternate to the proposal placed before him) and it took off. It became so simple for him to take credit of that and start speaches of the success. 3. Laloo, being ousted from Bihar, had ample time to himself to concentrate on the Ministry which he was given charge or (he had nothing to do with Bihar for quite some time - moreso, there were many cases being initiated against him). 4. This is an opportunity which he has utilised very well to put the black marks behind the brain of people and come out of the corruption/murder charges levelled against him, leading to his long time ambition of becoming Prime Minister of India, one day.
