Why a 1999 video of Nitish Kumar went viral after North East Express derailment
1 year, 2 months ago

Why a 1999 video of Nitish Kumar went viral after North East Express derailment

India Today  

“I will not call it just a chook. I have owned responsibility and resigned.” A 24-year-old video of a much-younger Nitish Kumar, as Union railway minister, saying these words in August 1999 is now viral on social media. Mandal has peppered his post with a dig on the current railway minister, saying: “Sabhi ek jaise nahin ho sakte, ya kahe sabhi Nitish Kumar jaise nahin ho sakte.” In the backdrop of the June 2023 train accident in Balasore, which left 296 people dead, Mandal essentially seemed to be making a case for Vaishnaw to do some introspection by citing Nitish, whose decision to quit as railway minister back in August 1999 after the train accident in West Bengal’s Gaisal is seen by many as a rare case of a leader’s probity in public life. Nitish, who manned the railway portfolio in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, was only the second railway minister after Lal Bahadur Shastri to quit taking moral responsibility for a train accident. Meanwhile, Bihar information minister Sanjay Jha said state authorities had deployed more than 50 ambulances at the North East Express accident site.

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