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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw over the Odisha rail tragedy, alleging that his “PR gimmicks” overshadowed the “critical deficiencies, prison negligence and whole omit for security and safety” of Indian Railways.
The Opposition birthday party additionally mentioned that High Minister Narendra Modi must settle for a part of the accountability for the “mess” that his executive has inflicted at the Indian Railways and the folks.
Addressing a press convention, Congress MP Shaktisinh Gohil and AICC’s exposure and media division head Pawan Khera alleged that the Odisha rail tragedy used to be a “man-made devastation brought about via “utter negligence, critical lapses within the gadget, incompetence, and a narcissistic sense of know-it-all angle of the Modi executive”.
High Minister Modi, who has introduced that the to blame can be punished, should first get started together with his Railway Minister, Khera mentioned.
“Unequivocally and unambiguously we call for the resignation of the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Not anything in need of it,” he mentioned.
Previous, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that railway protection were compromised within the “PR marketing campaign” of the high minister and the railway minister.
“Recall that Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned within the wake of the Nov 1956 Ariyalur teach crisis & Nitish Kumar did so following the ghastly Aug 1999 Gaisal teach tragedy,” he mentioned in a tweet.
On the presser, Gohil and Khera posed inquiries to the federal government and requested when will PM Modi call for the resignation from his Railway Minister Vaishnaw.
They alleged that Vaishnaw’s “excessive exposure, theatrics and PR gimmicks overshadowed the intense deficiencies, prison negligence and whole omit for security and safety of Indian Railways”.
“PM Modi, himself is accountable for a green-flagging spree of Vande Bharat Specific trains. He himself is accountable for growing this ‘all is definitely’ facade within the Indian Railways, at the same time as a very powerful, delicate, and demanding infrastructure of the Indian Railway languishes in overlook,” Gohil and Khera mentioned of their observation.
“We call for that in spite of more than one warnings via the CAG, Parliamentary Status Committees, and professionals — why did the Modi executive no longer spend on polishing up Railway Protection?” they mentioned.
Who’s accountable for the deadliest rail tragedy in unbiased India, Gohil and Khera requested.
Would most effective decrease or mid-level functionaries undergo the brunt of duty or will the chief who takes the entire credit score for Vande Bharat trains even be held answerable for this brazen omit for protection requirements, they requested.
With higher readability in spite of everything rising, here’s the collection of occasions that ended in one among India’s worst rail injuries in #Odisha.#OdishaTrainAccident #OdishaTrainTragedy %.twitter.com/0F4alfpDUH
— The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) June 4, 2023
The Congress leaders additionally requested when will the Modi executive put into effect the much-hyped Kavach Anti-Collision gadget national, after trying out.
Gohil and Khera requested when will the federal government pump extra finances within the Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) and refill the 3 lakh plus vacant positions within the Indian Railways.
The crash involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Specific and Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Specific, which have been wearing round 2,500 passengers, and a items teach came about round 7 pm on Friday close to the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore.
A minimum of 288 other folks have been useless and over 1,100 injured within the twist of fate.
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw over the Odisha rail tragedy, alleging that his “PR gimmicks” overshadowed the “critical deficiencies, prison negligence and whole omit for security and safety” of Indian Railways.
The Opposition birthday party additionally mentioned that High Minister Narendra Modi must settle for a part of the accountability for the “mess” that his executive has inflicted at the Indian Railways and the folks.
Addressing a press convention, Congress MP Shaktisinh Gohil and AICC’s exposure and media division head Pawan Khera alleged that the Odisha rail tragedy used to be a “man-made devastation brought about via “utter negligence, critical lapses within the gadget, incompetence, and a narcissistic sense of know-it-all angle of the Modi executive”.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
High Minister Modi, who has introduced that the to blame can be punished, should first get started together with his Railway Minister, Khera mentioned.
“Unequivocally and unambiguously we call for the resignation of the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Not anything in need of it,” he mentioned.
Previous, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that railway protection were compromised within the “PR marketing campaign” of the high minister and the railway minister.
“Recall that Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned within the wake of the Nov 1956 Ariyalur teach crisis & Nitish Kumar did so following the ghastly Aug 1999 Gaisal teach tragedy,” he mentioned in a tweet.
On the presser, Gohil and Khera posed inquiries to the federal government and requested when will PM Modi call for the resignation from his Railway Minister Vaishnaw.
They alleged that Vaishnaw’s “excessive exposure, theatrics and PR gimmicks overshadowed the intense deficiencies, prison negligence and whole omit for security and safety of Indian Railways”.
“PM Modi, himself is accountable for a green-flagging spree of Vande Bharat Specific trains. He himself is accountable for growing this ‘all is definitely’ facade within the Indian Railways, at the same time as a very powerful, delicate, and demanding infrastructure of the Indian Railway languishes in overlook,” Gohil and Khera mentioned of their observation.
“We call for that in spite of more than one warnings via the CAG, Parliamentary Status Committees, and professionals — why did the Modi executive no longer spend on polishing up Railway Protection?” they mentioned.
Who’s accountable for the deadliest rail tragedy in unbiased India, Gohil and Khera requested.
Would most effective decrease or mid-level functionaries undergo the brunt of duty or will the chief who takes the entire credit score for Vande Bharat trains even be held answerable for this brazen omit for protection requirements, they requested.
With higher readability in spite of everything rising, here’s the collection of occasions that ended in one among India’s worst rail injuries in #Odisha.#OdishaTrainAccident #OdishaTrainTragedy %.twitter.com/0F4alfpDUH
— The New Indian Specific (@NewIndianXpress) June 4, 2023
The Congress leaders additionally requested when will the Modi executive put into effect the much-hyped Kavach Anti-Collision gadget national, after trying out.
Gohil and Khera requested when will the federal government pump extra finances within the Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK) and refill the 3 lakh plus vacant positions within the Indian Railways.
The crash involving Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Specific and Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Specific, which have been wearing round 2,500 passengers, and a items teach came about round 7 pm on Friday close to the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore.
A minimum of 288 other folks have been useless and over 1,100 injured within the twist of fate.