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Railway
Minister ignores PM directive to please his boss
Tuesday July 12, 2011 08:23:05 AM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
Hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh directed him to visit
the train derailment site in Assam, Minister of State for Railways
Mukul Roy Monday evening left for the Maoist-hit Junglemahal area
in West Bengal where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also
visiting.
"As per schedule, he has left for a two-day tour to the Maoist hit
areas where Mamata Banerjee is also to visit," Trianmool sources
said.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked Roy to
visit the site of the blast in Assam that derailed a passenger
train, leaving at least 100 people injured, official sources said.
However, Roy kept himself busy during the day in the state
assembly where four Trinamool Congress candidates filed their
nominations for the Rajya Sabha.
When contacted, Roy refused to give a categorical reply on the prime
minister's directive to him to visit the accident site where the
Guwahati-Puri Express derailed near Ghograpara in Assam's Nalbari
district.
"You can talk to the Chief Public Relations Officer of the
Northeast Frontier Railway," Roy told IANS.
Regarding the Howrah-Kalka Mail disaster in Fatehpur district of
Uttar Pradesh, where at least 69 passengers were killed in an
accident, Roy replied: "Whatever queries you have, you put to Mr (K.H.)
Muniappa. He is looking after the entire matter."
Roy earlier told a television channel that he was only one of the
ministers of state, while the prime minister was the cabinet
minister. "The prime minister is the minister for railways. I am
only a minister of state."
A Northeast Frontier Railway official said: "We have not yet
received any official communication about Roy's visit."
However, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP and former
chairman of railway standing committee Basudeb Acharia said "Now
there seems to be a feud in the Trinamool Congress with Mukul Roy
not happy over the likely elevation of Dinesh Trivedi (Trinamool
Congress MP and MoS health and family welfare) as cabinet minister
for railways."
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