No One Is Running Away From Accountability: Anurag Thakur Hits Back At Rahul Gandhi

Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the latter's attacks on the Narendra Modi government in wake of the train accident in Odisha.

"Who is running away from accountability? Our Union Ministers were present on the accident spot &doing their duties. Rahul Gandhi goes abroad and defames India", Thakur said while responding to Gandhi's tweet on fixing accountability for the Odisha train accident.

"Rahul Gandhi goes abroad and defames India. Whose organising your programs in US. For Congress, family is everything, country is nothing," he added.

Earlier, Rahul Gandhi stepped up the attack on the central government after a deadly train accident in Odisha involving three trains in which nearly 300 people lost their lives.

"No accountability even after 270+ deaths! The Modi government cannot run away from taking responsibility for such a painful accident. The Prime Minister should immediately seek the resignation of the Railway Minister!", Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.

Several opposition parties stepped up pressure for Railway Minister Vaishnaw's resignation, with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge calling for fixing accountability from top to bottom.

The Bharatiya Janata Party hit back, saying the track record of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government's railway ministers was nothing short of a disaster and they should not politicise the issue.

"We have recommended a CBI probe into the triple train accident," Vaishnaw told reporters in Bhubaneswar on Sunday evening.