Shiv Sena (UBT) president Udd﷽hav Thackeray on Saturday expressed grief over the loss of lives in a bus tragedy in Maharඣashtra's Buldhana, and targeted the Eknath
Shinde-led government for "not doing anything" to stop accidents on the Samruddhi Expressway where it occurred. In a statement, Thackeray said the Buldhana accident should open the government's eyes as mo൩re than 300 people have lost their lives on the expressway since it was opened last year.
A total of 25 passengers were charred to death after the bu⛎s they were travelling in caught fire on the Samruddhi Expressway at Pimpalkhuta village near ℱSindkhedraja in Buldhana around 1.30 am on Saturday. There were 33 persons on board the vehicle, of whom eight survived, police said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had inaugurated the 520-km-long Phase-1 of the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Mahamarg in December last year. Officiall🦩y named as 'Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Th🍎ackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg', it is a pet project of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Describing the Buldhana accident as unfortunate and shocking, Thackeray said in a stat🥀ement that in the last one year, the Samruddhi E😼xpressway has seen more than 300 deaths in accidents.
"But the government has not done anything to stop the accidents. Hope the Buldhana accident will open th🌱e eyes of t♎he government," the former chief minister said.
