The BJP on Sunday asked Opposition parties to “not politicise” the Balasore train accident, and said the track record of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s Railway Ministers was “nothing short of a disaster”.
BJP information technology head Amit Malviya shared on Twitter what he said were the details of accidents under previous Ministers and added that such "worthies" were the ones demanding the resignation of the "most qualified" Railway Minister country has had in seven-and-half decades.
The Congress had earlier demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the latter should accept part of the responsibility for creating an “all is well facade” even while the critical infrastructure of the Indian Railways “languishes in neglect”.
