BJP to send teams to assess flood-hit areas in Karnataka: Vijayendra
Bengaluru (PTI): The BJP in Karnataka has constituted two teams to visit flood-hit regions of the state and assess the damage and relief operations, party state president B Y Vijayendra said on Sunday.
In the wake of torrential rains in neighbouring Maharashtra and several parts of Karnataka, rivers including Krishna and Bhima are in spate in north Karnataka.
“Due to floods and heavy rainfall in North Karnataka and Kalyana Karnataka, farmers and the poor are in distress. The Siddaramaiah government is sitting idle, expecting the central government to provide relief,” Vijayendra claimed, speaking with reporters here.
He recalled that when his father, B S Yediyurappa, was chief minister, relief was distributed “without pointing fingers at the central government.”
“The state government is doing injustice to farmers and flood victims,” Vijayendra alleged, adding, “Our leaders will visit flood-affected areas and hear farmers’ grievances over the next two days, starting tomorrow.”
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Five railway staffers injured as van headed to Rajdhani Express fire site overturns in MP
Ratlam (MP) (PTI): Five railway staffers were injured, one of them critically, when their van carrying repair equipment to the site of a Rajdhani Express fire overturned in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district on Sunday, officials said.
The blaze erupted in an AC coach of the Delhi-bound Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha stations under the Kota division of the railways in Ratlam at 5.15 am.
It disrupted the movement of several trains on the Mumbai-Delhi route, as per the officials.
A van carrying necessary equipment to Alot overturned on the way when a cow suddenly strayed into the middle of the road, they said.
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Five railwaymen were injured, one of them critically, the officials said.
The incident took place when the van carrying essential equipment for overhead electric line repair, among other things, was on its way to Alot from Shyamnagar in Ratlam, West Central Railway's chief public relations officer Harshit Shrivastava told PTI.
The injured persons were rushed to the hospital and were subsequently referred to Kota in Rajasthan, officials said.
No casualties were reported in the train fire.
