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The Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari accuses Trinamool Congress of being behind the Balasore triple train accident in which at least 275 people were killed.

Ministers accused of trying to shift blame for Friday’s disaster in which 275 people died

The first train on the section where the accident happened in Balasore started its journey at around 10.40 p.m. on Sunday, 51 hours after the horrific crash which killed 275 people, officials said.

Besides setting up a committee to monitor the situation at the accident spot, the government has arranged control rooms and announced ex gratia to the victims, IT Minister Gudivada Amarnath tells Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Balasore train accident, and said that before the accident, there were complaints of problems with the signalling system and a shortage in manpower, but the Central government had not done anything about these issues.

The Congress had earlier demanded the resignation of Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Train was diverted on to wrong tracks before collision, says railways minister as efforts to clear crash wreckage continue in Odisha

Indian authorities say they had concluded rescue operations after the country's deadliest rail crash in more than two decades.

The failure of a sophisticated electronic system designed to keep trains from colliding has been blamed for the crash.