Whereas expressing condolences for the households who misplaced their pricey ones within the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat Sunday, the Opposition accused the BJP authorities of “negligence”. And requested if it was an “act of God” or “an act of fraud”, alluding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s line of assault towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities in West Bengal when a flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016, killing many.
Saying the collapse appears to be a case of “legal negligence” and “gross misgovernance”, the Congress demanded a judicial inquiry and stated the responsible should be dropped at e book. Requested concerning the incident throughout his press convention in Telangana, on the sidelines of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi stated he doesn’t wish to “politicise the incident” as it could be tantamount to disrespecting those that died.
Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh, who’s in Gujarat for ballot campaigning and visited Morbi Monday, requested why Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not visited the positioning regardless of being within the state. “His authorities programmes are on. However he has not come right here.”
Singh additionally sought the resignation of the BJP authorities on the matter, whereas dubbing the formation of a probe committee by it “leepapoti (cover-up)”.
Late on Monday evening, Modi chaired a gathering on the Morbi bridge collapse on the Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar.
Earlier, addressing an occasion to mark Sardar Patel’s beginning anniversary at Statue of Unity in Kevadia, he stated: “I’m in Kevadia, however my coronary heart goes out to those that died within the Morbi tragedy.” Getting emotional, he added: “On one hand, there’s a coronary heart laden with grief, whereas on the opposite, there’s the trail of karma (responsibility) and kartavya (duty).” He stated it was this path that had led him to Kevadia.
Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior supervisor of the Congress for the Gujarat elections Ashok Gehlot, who additionally visited Morbi, demanded {that a} committee headed by a Excessive Courtroom choose probe the matter and submit a report inside three months. A probe panel shaped of officers was not sufficient, he stated.
Gehlot stated various issues must be investigated. “Had it been a pure calamity, it could have been a distinct matter. However, this has grow to be a man-made sort (calamity).”
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated: “Who was concerned within the development of the bridge, its high quality, why the bridge was opened in a rush after its renovation, what’s the cause (for the collapse), who allowed so many individuals to enter… There must be an inquiry into all these facets.”
Digvijaya Singh requested when was it that the Morbi Municipal Committee had signed the contract with the Oreva group for sustaining and managing the bridge and what have been the situations of the contract. “Did the contractor take permission from the Municipal Committee for beginning the bridge, did the contractor inform the District Administration, was the SP, Morbi, knowledgeable by the contractor, was the District/PS police current on the web site when the bridge collapsed, why did the police permit extra entry tickets to be issued than the capability… Isn’t it an entire failure of the Gujarat Govt administration?” he tweeted.
Fascinating level @sanket
These are following questions which come up.
1-When was contract signed with this Firm by Morbi Municipal Committee?
2-What are situations of contract?
1/n#Morbi https://t.co/HYeulOOiKF— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) October 31, 2022
Youth Congress head Srinivas B V tweeted in Hindi: “On this manner, because of the Act of Fraud of the Authorities of Gujarat, 141+ lives have been misplaced… There have been greater than 500 individuals on the bridge that had a capability of 100, not forcibly however by shopping for tickets… The place was the DM? The place was the police? The place was the CMO? How did the bridge open with no health certificates?”
He added: “The Gujarat authorities chargeable for 141+ deaths is so critical that not even a single officer has been transferred.”
आज प्रधानमंत्री गमगीन है, अपनी सरकार की लापरवाही के चलते 141+ गुजरातियों की जान जाने की खबर उनको अंदर से परेशान कर रही है।
दुख की इस बेला में उन्होंने रेलवे स्टेशन से 4 ट्रेनों का शुभारंभ किया। आज का ये तीसरा Occasion है। संवेदनाएं 💔🙏 pic.twitter.com/EQRD9VRmw8
— Srinivas BV (@srinivasiyc) October 31, 2022
In a separate tweet, he shared excerpts from Modi’s speech in Kevadia, Gujarat, to mark Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, coinciding with Sardar Patel’s beginning anniversary, and stated: “There was a speech of full 27 minutes. The federal government occasion continued as an alternative of the condolence assembly… However there is just one precept of Saheb, The Present Should Go On!!”
In a Twitter put up, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi stated : “Jogs my memory of the Act of God and Act of fraud speech given by the Prime Minister when a bridge in WB collapsed.”
The Congress basic secretary communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh shared pictures of the Bharat Jodo Yatris observing two-minute silence in reminiscence of those that died within the tragedy.