‘Dal mein kuch kala hai’: Mamata Banerjee after meeting Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Mamata Banerjee has questioned the absence of anti-collision devices in trains involved in the Odisha train accident that killed 275 people
PremiumWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has attacked the Central government over the Odisha train accident in which 275 people died and another 1,175 were injured. Referring to the anti-collision device which reportedly was missing from the Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Express that were involved in the Odisha train accident, Mamata Banerjee asked why the rail minister didn’t say anything when she mentioned the anti-collision device. “Dal mein kuch kala hai," Mamata Banerjee said.
Addressing a press conference, Mamata Banerjee said, “Yesterday, railway minister and Dharmendra Pradhan were standing with me. I should have said a lot of things because I served as a railway minister. Why there was no anti-collision device in Coromandel Express and Bengaluru-Howrah Express? Railway has been left to be sold."
“'Dal mein kuch kaala hai', we want the truth to come out," Mamata Banerjee said. Questioning the official death toll number, Mamata Banerjee alleged that those who run the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government can “change history and change any number". Also Read | Odisha train accident: Railway Board recommends CBI probe into crash
“62 people from West Bengal died in this accident. 206 people are being treated in the state. 73 people from the state are admitted to various hospitals in Odisha. While 56 people from West Bengal have been discharged from the hospitals in Odisha. 182 people are yet to be identified…182 missing from Bengal only," she said.
If from one state, 182 are missing and 61 are confirmed dead, then where would the figures stand?" Mamata Banerjee asked.
Mamata Banerjee earlier had a tussle with Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw over the official figure of the people who have lost their lives in the Odisha train accident.
She also asked if the engines of Vande Bharat are fit. "The name Vande Bharat is good, but you have seen what happened that day when a tree branch fell on it," she said, about a mishap the Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat suffered on the second day after its inauguration.
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