Potholes in Bengaluru have was loss of life traps, mentioned Janata Dal (Secular) or JD(S) chief HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday, days after a 50-year-old girl, who was using pillion on a scooter, fell on the street whereas making an attempt to navigate a pothole and run over by a state transport bus.
“Potholes have was loss of life traps. After one other lack of life close to Lulu Mall, the government is enacting drama to indicate they’re energetic. The place is the everlasting resolution? Murderous potholes are answerable for sequence of deaths,” Kumaraswamy tweeted.
Blaming the Bharatiya Janata Occasion-led Karnataka authorities for the lady’s loss of life, he added: “Karnataka BJP authorities is instantly answerable for loss of life of individuals attributable to potholes. BBMP (civic physique) should take full accountability for the lack of life & ache suffered by harmless. Involved officers ought to reply.”
“However the identical potholes are boon to others. Extra potholes imply extra money to their pocket,” he mentioned in a sequence of tweets. “They haven’t any disgrace, even after being warned by the courtroom to arrest corrupt officers, they proceed to be conceited.”
The remarks got here two days after the lady, Umadevi (50), who fell off a scooter and was run over by a bus on Monday within the Rajajinagar space of Bengaluru, died of her accidents at ESI hospital. Umadevi was using pillion on the scooter being pushed by her daughter Vanitha. She fell when Vanitha tried to swerve to keep away from a pothole and was run over by a state transport bus — sustaining extreme accidents to her head and legs, her daughter had mentioned on Monday.
“Unwell-fated Umadevi misplaced her life. You can not wash your palms off by paying compensation,” the JD(S) chief mentioned. “At the very least from now roads ought to be scientifically constructed and managed.”
Whereas Bengaluru was as soon as famend as ‘Backyard Metropolis’, ‘Pensioners Paradise’ and ‘Silicon Valley’, at the moment it has was a metropolis of potholes or pothole valley, he mentioned. “As we speak, town is named Gundigaluru (metropolis of potholes), Adwana Nagara (cluttured metropolis) & Potholes Valley. Proportion in works is motive for metropolis getting such unfavorable picture.”
Earlier, chief minister Basavaraj Bommai mentioned he has ordered the police to conduct a probe into the matter. “I’ve given directions, company (BBMP) commissioner additionally met. What has occurred there (pothole) and repairing it’s one half… I’ve additionally requested the police to inquire into the explanations for the loss of life, the criticism acquired and report again,” he advised reporters. “As soon as the report comes, I’ve directed officers to take motion towards the responsible.”