MP: Two coaches of Indore-Jabalpur Express train derail; no passenger injured
Jabalpur (PTI): Two coaches of Indore-Jabalpur Express train derailed on Saturday morning when it was approaching the Jabalpur station in Madhya Pradesh, railway officials said.
No passenger was injured in the derailment that occurred around 5.40 am, they said.
Restoration work is underway and a committee has been formed to probe the incident, according to them.
Jabalpur station falls under the West Central Railway (WCR) zone.
"Two coaches of the Indore-Jabalpur Superfast Express (22191) derailed when the train was approaching platform number 6 of the Jabalpur station," an official said.
The derailed coaches were positioned just behind the engine, he said, adding that the derailment took place around 50 metres away from the platform.
Talking to PTI, Madhur Verma, senior Divisional Commercial Manager (DCM) of WCR's Jabalpur Rail Division, "The train's scheduled arrival time is 5.35 am. The derailment occurred at 5.38 am when the train was about to enter the Jabalpur station. The loco pilot immediately stopped the train and saved other coaches from getting dragged."
"Two coaches adjoining the engine got derailed, but fortunately, no passenger was injured in the incident," he said.
The passengers got off the train and traffic on the adjoining tracks was stopped for around half an hour, Verma said.
"A multi-departmental inquiry committee has been constituted to carry out a probe," he said.
There was no major impact on the railway traffic as only platform number six of the station was closed for operations, he said.
Harshit Shrivastava, chief public relations officer of the West Central Railway said, "The train was running at the dead-stop speed of 5 kmph when the incident occurred."
The cause behind the derailment will be known after a probe, he said, adding that railway traffic on the route was normal and efforts to re-rail the derailed coaches were on.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
