Union Minister of Medium and Small Scale industries Kalraj Mishra has assured a high-level probe into the Gorakhdham Express train tragedy saying it likely occurred due to fractured rail track while BJP MP Yogi Adityanath alleged that the accident could be the handiwork of anti-national elements.
“The Gorakhpur-bound Gorakhdham Express train derailed due to fractured track,” Mishra told reporters in Sant Kabir Nagar here on Tuesday. A high-level probe will be set-up to avoid similar mishaps in future, he said.
Mishra said that he will take up the issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and PM Yogi Adityanath, who accompanied the two Ministers to the accident site, apprehended a terrorist move behind the train mishap.
He has also demanded jobs for the kins of the deceased. Mishra, who was also accompanied by minister of state for Railways Manoj Sinha, MP Kamlesh Paswan, MP Harish Dwivedi, Sharad Tripathi and party’s state spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak, also visited the Khalilabad hospital to meet the injured people and their families.
They also visited the Gorakhpur district hospital, railway hospital and Bheem Rao Ambedkar medical college and issued directives to the doctors. Meanwhile Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh for those who died in the accident and Rs 50,000 for the injured.