02-07-2006, 10:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Rajdhani Accident in Bihar was Devised to Malign Nitish Kumar</b>
Patna: February 7, 2006
The Rajdhani Express disaster of 2002 at Rafiganj in Aurangabad district was the brainchild of Maoist guerillas to malign the then Railway Minister Nitish Kumar. This is the finding of a police investigation following <b>the arrest of a Naxal leader Sanjay Yadav who has confessed of his role in the Rajdhani accident that resulted in the loss of 106 lives.</b>
<b>Yadav, a CPI-M zone commander. who was arrested in Khwaspur village in Gaya district on Sunday, told the police that he was involved in removing the railway tracks over Dhaba bridge in Rafiganj which led the super-fast Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express to jump track and plunge several feet into the river, Arvind Pandey, DIG, Magadh range</b>, said on Monday.
Besides 106 deaths caused by the accident, several hundred people were injured â many with permanent-y disability.
<b>Another Maoist extremist, Vikas Yadav, has also given similar account of the accident.</b>
At the time of the accident, Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government was in the power at the Center while the Janata Dal (U) leader and the current Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar was the Railway Minister.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav had accused the Railway Minister of being an incompetent leader "under whose regime there was a dramatic rise in railway accidents".
Nitish Kumar has maintained a silence over the new revelation but his lieutenants are not holding back on their reactions. "We feel vindicated now that the truth has come out even though we had known it all along. The RJD regime, which failed on all accounts despite being in power for over 15 years, was also responsible for the rise in extremist activities in the state. Now the NDA government in Bihar is having to clean up the mess left by the Lalu-Rabri government," said a JD-U legislator.
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Patna: February 7, 2006
The Rajdhani Express disaster of 2002 at Rafiganj in Aurangabad district was the brainchild of Maoist guerillas to malign the then Railway Minister Nitish Kumar. This is the finding of a police investigation following <b>the arrest of a Naxal leader Sanjay Yadav who has confessed of his role in the Rajdhani accident that resulted in the loss of 106 lives.</b>
<b>Yadav, a CPI-M zone commander. who was arrested in Khwaspur village in Gaya district on Sunday, told the police that he was involved in removing the railway tracks over Dhaba bridge in Rafiganj which led the super-fast Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express to jump track and plunge several feet into the river, Arvind Pandey, DIG, Magadh range</b>, said on Monday.
Besides 106 deaths caused by the accident, several hundred people were injured â many with permanent-y disability.
<b>Another Maoist extremist, Vikas Yadav, has also given similar account of the accident.</b>
At the time of the accident, Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government was in the power at the Center while the Janata Dal (U) leader and the current Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar was the Railway Minister.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav had accused the Railway Minister of being an incompetent leader "under whose regime there was a dramatic rise in railway accidents".
Nitish Kumar has maintained a silence over the new revelation but his lieutenants are not holding back on their reactions. "We feel vindicated now that the truth has come out even though we had known it all along. The RJD regime, which failed on all accounts despite being in power for over 15 years, was also responsible for the rise in extremist activities in the state. Now the NDA government in Bihar is having to clean up the mess left by the Lalu-Rabri government," said a JD-U legislator.
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