Even as a train plowed into a Dusshera event in Amritsar’s Jora Phatak on Friday, 19 October, killing at least 60 people and injuring several others, politicians in Punjab took to playing the blame game over the administration allegedly permitting the event to take place near a live railway track.
Speaking to CNN News18, BJP leader Harsimrat Kaur questioned the administration’s perceived laxity.
“How could an administration give permission to hold an event such as this so close to the tracks? Especially if it is a live track with trains running across every few minutes, and so much noise from the firecrackers - nobody heard the train and there were no barricades there.”