Thackeray stated the Buldhana coincidence will have to open the federal government's eyes as greater than 300 folks have misplaced their lives at the throughway because it was once opened final yr.
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday expressed grief over the lack of lives in a bus tragedy in Maharashtra’s Buldhana, and focused the Eknath Shinde-led executive for “no longer doing anything else” to prevent injuries at the Samruddhi Limited-access highway the place it took place.
In a remark, Thackeray stated the Buldhana coincidence will have to open the federal government’s eyes as greater than 300 folks have misplaced their lives at the throughway because it was once opened final yr.
A complete of 25 passengers had been charred to dying after the bus they had been travelling in stuck hearth at the Samruddhi Limited-access highway at Pimpalkhuta village close to Sindkhedraja in Buldhana round 1.30 am on Saturday.
There have been 33 individuals on board the automobile, of whom 8 survived, police stated.
Top Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the 520-km-long Segment-1 of the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Mahamarg in December final yr.
Formally named as ‘Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg’, this can be a puppy mission of Deputy Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Describing the Buldhana coincidence as unlucky and surprising, Thackeray stated in a remark that within the final yr, the Samruddhi Limited-access highway has noticed greater than 300 deaths in injuries.
“However the executive has no longer completed anything else to prevent the injuries. Hope the Buldhana coincidence will open the eyes of the federal government,” the previous leader minister stated.
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