August 20, 2026 01:17 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Vijay govt calls for action to stop students, youth from joining CJP, Left protests | Kolkata hotel fire kills 9: Bengal Minister Agnimitra Paul targets ex-TMC govt, CESC over licences | Kolkata hotel fire: 9 Bangladeshi nationals, including women and a child, die in massive blaze | Tarun Tejpal faces life term? Goa govt moves Supreme Court after 2013 rape conviction | Supreme Court rejects ‘less painful’ death penalty plea, but leaves door open for future change | ‘Vulgarity and disgust’: DMK attacks Vijay over Trisha salute at I-Day event | ‘Take Gyanesh Kumar to the US’: Congress mocks Trump over praise for India’s voter ID system | Big relief for Imran Khan: Pakistan Supreme Court orders hospital transfer amid health fears | Trump praises India’s voter ID system, pushes SAVE America Act | Trump's shock threat to bomb Oman: US President warns ally over Iran deal and Hormuz crisis

Kolkata flyover collapse : Rahul Gandhi visits site, says no politics involved

| | Apr 02, 2016, at 05:51 pm
Kolkata, Apr 2 (IBNS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited the site of the bridge collapse in north Kolkata and met the victims of the tragedy.

Mr.Gandhi said there was no politics involved  in his visit . .

"Have come here to meet the injured. Do  not want to give a political statement," he said  after meeting victims of the disaster that claimed 24 lives and left many  injured. .

 "I have came here to support the people, I wanted to come here and give my support to the people. That is what I did, give support to the people, whatever little support I can...We should reach out to the people, it is a tragedy," the Gandhi scion said asserting that he won't make any political statement.

His visit took place amid a political blamegame in the poll-bound West Bengal with the opposition parties training gun at the Trinamool Congress Government and the ruling party putting the blame on the previous Left Front Government. 

Accompanied by senior state Congress leaders, Gandhi interacted with rescue workers at the accident site.

He also visited the hospitals where the injured people are undergoing treatment. More than 100 people were injured in the disaster and 70 of them were still in hospitals.

Gandhi reached the city on Saturday morning.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.