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Gyaneshwari Train Derailment: Weaving A Whodunit Tale

By Raja Jaikrishan

01 June, 2010
Countercurrents.org

Spider, known for changing moods, reminds me of Trinmool Congress president Mamta Banerjee. Today, when she stayed away from the cabinet meeting on the alibi that she had more important issues at hand, media observers speculated on her UPA exit plans.

They even pointed out that Didi had been miffed by various acts of omission and commission by her cabinet colleague Pranab Mukherji during the Sunday Bengal civic poll over the seat adjustment and diatribes of her cabinet colleague.

In the afternoon, she put the speculation to rest, saying “there was no differences between her party and Congress and she will attend the UPA report card meeting”.
Believing the exit poll prediction of her party’s win in the Bengal Civic poll, Didi insisted on CBI inquiry into the Gyaneshwari train derailment.

As is her wont, she roared and thundered. “This is our government. We will decide what to do and what not to do. I think the passengers' life is more important. More than 150 people have been killed. This is a heinous crime. Whoever is the culprit should be booked. There will be no compromise with the safety and security of passengers. I am very serious about it, and I won't leave any stone unturned."

The CPM is for the state CID probe and blames Maoists for the attack. Home Minister P.Chidambaram has been blaming Maoists and harping on CBI probe. The train sabotage on the eve of the poll made the Congress, Trinmool Congress and CPM cadres to stay away from rigging the poll in the closing hours. Even the police acted without political pressure and handled the stray incidents of violence.

Electoral expediency has cast a long shadow over the whodunit story. Once again human lives have been sacrificed at the altar of power.

First, they blamed the Maoist –backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (formed during Lalgarh upsurge); then the PCPA was not named in the FIR and on Sunday they said that PCPA has disowned responsibility of the train attack.

A section even quoted from the purported CPI (Maoist) strategy documents that the attack on civilians was to gain control in urban areas and went on to name the people involved in the plan.