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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

Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Dharmendra Pradhan who have camped here visited the railway accident site in the early hours on June 4. Read more on The Hindu

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said that the tragic train accident in Odisha's Balasore occurred due to a "change in electronic interlocking". Read further on Dynamite News:

Earlier Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had announced an ex-gratia of ₹10 lakh and the Prime Minister’s Office declared ₹2 lakh for the families which lost their near and dear ones in the tragedy.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw who reviewed the restoration work at the Balasore triple train collision site on Sunday, said that the accident that claimed the lives of 288 passengers happened due to a change in electronic interlocking. Read further on Dynamite News:

Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country's deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people.

The Balasore train accident where two passenger trains and a goods carriage were involved claimed 288 lives so far while over 1,000 people sustained injuries. Tap more to read on The Hindu

Preliminary report blames signal failure for Indian train crash that has killed at least 288 people and injured another 803.