First and foremost, my deep condolence to the families of all the victims in last friday's Jnaneswari disaster in Sardiha, West Bengal. REST IN PEACE ALL WHOSE LIFE HAD COME TO AN ABRUPT END. I pray to the almighty that the ones still suffering injuries get well soon.
It is not that we have not seen a passenger train getting caught in an accident before. In fact we are quite familiar with that, mostly because of the poor infrastructure, shortage of manpower (yes, Indian Railways have almost 1 Lac of vaccancies at this moment including all posts) and everly increasing number of trains.
But definitely we have not seen an accident of this magnitude in last 10 years or so. The last one I remember was the Gaisal disaster back in 1999 when almost 300 people were killed in a head on collision.
But even then politics was not involved as much as this time. And I am very very frustated because of that. Instead of agreeing to the fact that it is our cumulative failure to help protect passenger security, the local political parties are trying to blame others. Tussle over the investigating agency -CID or CBI (Link ), conspiracy theories and obviousy, the civic polls..all making headlines. Four days have passed by, and we still do not know who are behind this massacre. And probably we never will. Worse, amidst all these, it seems we even forgot that there are some ill fated people, still outside the various hospitals, waiting for the dead bodies of their beloved one.
For god's sake, cant we stop politicising everything that comes our way and act a little bit more sense?
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