Pune, June 9 -- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) Supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday said the incident of five passengers falling to their deaths from a local train due to overcrowding is very unfortunate and added that Railways needs to increase the number of local trains on important routes.
In a post on X, he said, I pay my heartfelt tributes to all the innocent passengers.
He said that some passengers are undergoing treatment in the hospital. I pray that their health also improves as soon as possible.
He said that, "On an average, 6 to 7 passengers die every day on the Central Railway after falling from local trains. This information that has come to light according to a statistic is very worrying. It is well known that the increasing...