Rae Bareli: Congress vice president Rahul
Gandhi today visited Rae Bareli to meet those injured in the
NTPC boiler explosion and said his party will demand a probe
into the incident.
Taking a break from his Gujarat election tour, the
Congress vice president arrived here this morning and visited
postmortem house, district hospital and NTPC premises and
enquired about the incident from officers present.
He was accompanied by senior party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad
and Congress state president Raj Babbar.
"How many workers were working there?" he was heard asking
officers at the Unchahar unit of NTPC.
"People are saying that it (the plant unit) was run early
(before schedule). It should not have been run that way. We
will demand a probe," the Congress vice president told
reporters.
Azad demanded a high-level probe by an outside agency to
bring out the facts.
Rahul also came face to face with Union Power minister RK
Singh during his visit to the site.
The toll in the massive explosion in the boiler at the
state-run power giant NTPC's Unchahar plant today rose to 26
with six more persons succumbing to injuries.
