Updates on the U.P. train derailment live: Several Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express carriages derrail near Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, resulting in four deaths and twenty injuries.

Echoing Trinamool Congress national spokesperson Sushmita Dev, Mahua Moitra said, “Another derailment in UP. Shame @AshwiniVaishnaw – Indian Railways in Emergency room after 10 years of Jumla Sarkar.”

Ms. Moitra emphasised the urgent need for safety measures, advocating for the immediate installation of the automated train collision avoidance system (KAVACH) across all railway routes.

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The Trinamool Congress has blamed Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for the derailment of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express in Uttar Pradesh, which claimed four lives and left at least 20 people injured on Thursday.

While the party’s Rajya Sabha MP and national spokesperson Sushmita Dev said the railways, which serves as the primary mode of travel for millions, is no longer safe, TMC Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra commented that the railways appeared to have entered an “emergency room” phase after 10 years of the Narendra Modi government.

Offering her condolences to the bereaved families and expressing solidarity with the injured, Ms. Dev said, “Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the blue-eyed boy of @PMOIndia, is costing us lives!”

Apart from Commissioner of Railway Safety enquiry, a high level enquiry has been ordered. Enhanced ex-gratia of ₹10 lakh to the death, ₹2.5 lakh to grievous injury, ₹50,000 to minor/simple injury has been announced.

While the Railways have put the toll in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment at two and the number of injured at eight, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak has said four people were killed and 20 injured in the accident. 

Railways has arranged for a special rake to transport affected passengers from Mankapur to Dibrugarh. Passengers will be transported in buses from accident site to Mankapur station, in Uttar Pradesh.

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Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak said that currently their priority is to save lives of the injured in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailement and give them the best treatment.

Senior officials of the Health Department are on the spot and an adequate number of ambulances have been rushed to carry the injured, he said.

“Train number 15904 Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express that left Wednesday night from Chandigarh derailed near Gonda Junction station between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations at around 2.37 p.m. on Thursday under the jurisdiction of North Eastern Railway (NER),” Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relations Officer, Northeast Frontier Railway, said.

Gonda District Magistrate Neha Sharma, who reached the accident spot, said eight coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express got derailed, adding that the injured are being rushed to hospital and relief operations are on at the site.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday condoled the deaths in the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda and demanded the installation of the Kavach anti-collision system on all routes across India.

Taking a dig at PM Modi and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Mr. Kharge said that the leaders “must take direct responsibility of the massive lapses that have plagued the Indian Railways.”

Two trains have been cancelled and 11 trains diverted following Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailment in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his government is in touch with the authorities concerned following the derailment of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh.

“HCM Dr @himantabiswa has been briefed about the derailment of Dibrugarh – Chandigarh express in Uttar Pradesh,” the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on X.

“HCM is monitoring the situation and the Government of Assam is in touch with relevant authorities,” it said.