‘Did your aunt resign for Jnaneswari?’: BJP leader backs IITian Ashwini Vaishnaw | Latest News India

Amid the confrontation between the BJP and the Trinamool over the Odisha triple practice collision involving two Bengal trains, BJP’s Suvdendu Adhikari skilled his gun at Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee and requested whether or not his aunt Mamata Banerjee resigned because the railway minister after the Jnaneswari accident in 2010. “What could be expected more from a dimwit half-educated person catapulted in Politics only because his aunt is the proprietor of the family business, portrayed as a political party,” Suvendu mentioned in a swipe at Abhishek. Read | ‘Soon, nobody killed 288+ folks’: Politics over Odisha practice crash amid ‘sabotage’ principle

Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express and Bengaluru- Howrah Superfast collided in Odisha’s Balasore on Friday night killing 288 folks. The collision concerned a items practice including to the affect of the accident manifold. Victims included many from Bengal as each the passenger trains have been from Bengal. The Coromandel was on its option to Chennai from Howrah’s Shalima; the opposite was on its option to Howrah.

West Bengal authorities despatched its group to the location quickly after the crash and chief minister Mamata Banerjee went to Odisha on Saturday. The tragedy turned a flashpoint between the BJP and the Trinamool because the Trinamool squarely blamed railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for the tragedy.

Mamata Banerjee and Vaishnaw have been caught on digital camera arguing over the Coromandel accident toll the place Mamata mentioned the toll might be above 500 however the railway minister contradicted and confirmed that rescue work was already over.

The BJP mentioned Mamata and her get together had no floor to hunt Ashwini Vaishnaw’s resignation as Mamata didn’t resign after Jnaneshwari. “I would like to remind you that the CBI Chargesheeted Accused behind that tragedy; Chatradhar Mahato belonged to your party & was again inducted to the state committee of your party after he walked out of the jail in 2020, by your aunt; who was the then Railway Minister,” Suvendu mentioned.

“Ashwini Vaishnaw ji is an IIT alumni and a former IAS officer of the 1994 batch. He is the most suitable person to hold the fort at this distressful moment,” Suvendu mentioned.

Rail ministers who resigned after practice accidents

Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned from his submit of railway minister after over 140 folks died in a practice accident in 1956 in Tamil Nadu. Months earlier than, 112 folks died in an accident in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1999, Nitish Kumar resigned from his minister submit after the Gaisal practice accident.