Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) spokesperson Derek O'Brien on Friday said strict action will be taken against those responsible for the Kolkata flyover tragedy. "The builders have been completely irresponsible. They have blood on their hands, they'll face consequences."
He also asked politicians to not politicise this tragedy. He said tourist politicians from Delhi should not politicise this tragedy.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi accused the state government of "criminal negligence", which the TMC described as "cheap politics".
Naqvi, Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, said that the TMC government showed "criminal negligence" in ensuring relief work and engaging in a "competition on corruption" with the previous Left Front government which had resulted in the flyover collapse claiming 24 lives.
O' Brien termed Naqvi's statements as "cheap politics" in the election season. "The chief minister and the ruling Trinamool Congress have indulged in petty politics of accusing the previous Left Front government. It is not the time to accuse the previous government. If the previous Left Front government had indulged in corruption, then why didn't the TMC government stop it after coming to power? It seems a competition on corruption was on between the two. And the flyover collapse is a result of it," Naqvi told reporters.
The death toll in the tragedy rose to 24 as three more bodies were recovered from under the debris of concrete and iron girders.
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