Accusing the Narendra Modi government of dereliction of duty of Himalayan proportions in the Balasore train accident, the Congress on Wednesday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should lodge a First Information Report (FIR) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Railway Minister Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for negligence.
At a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said Mr. Vaishnaw was “doing theatrics” after the horrific accident and said “he should be given an Oscar award for it”.
Mr. Kumar said that the budget for laying of new tracks and repairing the old ones had come down from ₹9,607 crores in 2018-19 to ₹7,417 crores in 2019-2020. He added that in the past four years, there had been over 1,129 derailments yet there had been no accountability.
