KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, May 29 (PTI) - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today alleged that there was a political conspiracy behind the Jnaneswari Express disaster in West Midnapore and said the Centre has agreed for a CBI probe into it.
"From the Railways, we have requested the Union Home Ministry for a CBI investigation into the incident since it was in Jangalmahal where joint operation (against Maoists) is on. We have already sent a letter and the Centre has agreed to order it," Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata.
Without mentioning names she said, "Whoever did it, it was a political conspiracy. The accident has happened two days before the (civic) election. One may be politically against us, but I feel bad that the way the incident was engineered to fulfil one's political interest.
