Bharti said she arrived on time for the train and asked to check the CCTV cameras at the station.
BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Sunday wrote to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnao after she almost missed her train at Jhansi railway station.
Bharti, who was sitting on the train after someone pulled the chain, claimed that she reached the station on time but was delayed due to infrastructure problems and the train leaving early. She also cited “insensitivity towards modernisation”, saying she had previously faced a similar problem at Mathura railway station.
“Honorable Railway Lady Ji, I had earlier written about the insensitivity towards passengers at Mathura Railway Station. Today, while boarding Jhansi Railway Station with me, another incident took place in which there was no criminal involvement; rather lack of practical sensitivity in constructing modern facilities at the stations was the reason,” she said in a post on X.
Bharti said she arrived on time for the train and asked to check the CCTV cameras at the station. “I reached Jhansi railway station before the train arrived and this train reached Jhansi on time before the scheduled time and left before the scheduled time,” she claimed.
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“Nobody made a mistake, but time wasted.”
There were no human errors in her delay, Bharti said in the post, adding that she was traveling in a battery-powered vehicle. However, she said that three to four minutes of her time was lost while waiting for the train to pass and due to a wheelbarrow stuck on the track.
“I was taken in a battery-powered trolley from platform No. 1 towards platform No. 4, and in the meantime, a train passed for a long time on the track that we needed to cross, and we had to wait; then, when we moved a little further, a wheelbarrow was stuck on the track – security personnel helped me remove it; then, when I reached platform No. 4 and the Punjab Mail train I was supposed to take was already moving, I don’t know who pulled the chain, and I was sitting on the train,” she said.
She further said that officials at the station were aware of her “inability to walk quickly” and so they arranged a battery-powered cart. She added: “Everything was according to schedule, and there was no fault of anyone. However, three or four minutes were wasted for me on the train. The first reason was that the train arrived before the scheduled time and left two minutes before the scheduled time.” Bharti urged modernization of railways while maintaining “vigilance of legacy systems”. She said that the general public regularly encounters these issues and “become victims of this chaos.”
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