Taking a strong exemption to the political war of words between the Trinamool Congress and CPM over Jnaneswari Express tragedy came the opposition BJP Sunday down heavily on the Railways Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee and sought the Prime Minister's interference in the substance.
The BJP criticized slug feast between Trinamool and CPM to score political fairy points with the West Bengal elections in mind.
"Both the Trinamool Congress's Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and CPM bound state government has failed to provide instant assistance to the train disaster victims. Both are involved in a political struggle over the issue in terms of assembly election in the state," BJP spokesman Prakash Javdekar said and added: "We condemn the carelessness towards the relief and rescue work, which is seen, even after 72 hours after the event."
Javdekar came down especially against Railways Minister to jump to conclusion in an apparent attempt to counter the left of the charge next to her. "The Railway Minister has forgotten the Railway Safety and seems more inclined to give a clean chit to the Maoists, who are very irresponsible. When the probe is still occurrence, how could she come to know that there is no Maoist hand in the incident, said he said. "If the UPA ministers work in this way, it would be a betrayal of the mandate. This will only embolden the Maoists. The Prime Minister must see that this is not occurrence. "
