'Kin Of Odisha Train Tragedy Victims Forced To...': Bengal BJP Targets CM Mamata Over Ex Gratia Disbursal

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday visited Odisha’s injured passengers of the ill-fated Coromandel Express who are currently admitted in different hospitals in Cuttack.

Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari alleged that people were being forced to attend Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's programme in Kolkata.

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Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday alleged that relatives of those deceased in the Odisha triple train accident were being forced to come to Kolkata’s Netaji indoor stadium where Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to hand over cheques to the injured and relatives of the deceased. 

Speaking to reporters, Bengal Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, said, “The relatives of people who were injured in the Balasore train accident are being compelled to come to Netaji Indoor Stadium tomorrow because CM Mamata Banerjee will deliver a speech there and handover cheques to the injured and relatives of the deceased. It is shameful that they are being told to come to Kolkata. They have not even recovered from the trauma."

The Trinamool Congress chief on Tuesday visited Odisha’s injured passengers of the ill-fated Coromandel Express who are currently admitted in different hospitals in Cuttack.

She visited the eye and surgery department of SCB Medical College and Hospital and interacted with the patients and assured them of all possible help.

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"...We must work for the people. We must be with the people. We want the truth to come out. Truth must not be suppressed," she said after meeting with injured passengers. 

She said there are 57 injured passengers from West Bengal in SCB Medical College.

The former Union railway minister had visited the site and met with injured people in Balasore a day after the accident on Saturday and called the accident “biggest of the century” and said that a proper investigation was needed to unravel the truth.

She also spoke to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and other senior officials who were already present there and claimed most of the passengers "were from Bengal barring a few from Kerala, Bengaluru and Odisha".

She has announced Rs 5 lakh compensation to families of West Bengal passengers killed in the accident, Rs 1 lakh to critically injured, and Rs 50,000 to those with minor injuries.

288 people were killed while over 900 were injured after three trains — Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express, SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah SF Express, and a freight train — collided after Coromandel Express derailed near Bahanaga railway station in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday night. 

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