Monday, May 31, 2010
Mamata blames political opponents for derailment
Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Monday blamed Maoist insurgents for causing the train derailment that killed 147 people in West Bengal on 28 May. “The train was derailed by the removal of fish plates and the cutting off of a portion of the rail track. The derailment led to a collision with a goods train,” Chidambaram said.
Mamata claimed that removing fish plates was not possible on the long welded tracks on which the train was running when it derailed at about 1:30 AM on Friday between Khemasoli and Sardiya stations near Jhargram, about 150 km from Kolkata. "There are no fish plates. This is a long welded track. There is no question of removing the fish plates," she said.
IMO: I can understand that Chidambaram knows little about trains, and that Banerjee is inclined not to suffer fools gladly. It seems that both CPI(Marxist) and CPI(Maoist) (ie Naxals) both stood to gain from political dissent, and both want more support, which may have been the net result. India is not, in my opinion, a country where mass murder should be used in politics.
Mamata claimed that removing fish plates was not possible on the long welded tracks on which the train was running when it derailed at about 1:30 AM on Friday between Khemasoli and Sardiya stations near Jhargram, about 150 km from Kolkata. "There are no fish plates. This is a long welded track. There is no question of removing the fish plates," she said.
IMO: I can understand that Chidambaram knows little about trains, and that Banerjee is inclined not to suffer fools gladly. It seems that both CPI(Marxist) and CPI(Maoist) (ie Naxals) both stood to gain from political dissent, and both want more support, which may have been the net result. India is not, in my opinion, a country where mass murder should be used in politics.
# posted by uv : 2:33 PM
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