Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 4: BJP senior leader and MLC Vibodh Gupta has expressed serious concern over the increasing road accidents taking place in different parts of the State.
While expressing shock over the death of three persons and serious injuries to others in a bus accident at Guntrian in Poonch today, Vibodh demanded a thorough probe into the reasons behind this accident.
In a press statement issued here, he said that these days accidents and precious loss of human lives have become a routine affair and every time when an accident takes place we condole the demise and in the process the actual culprits responsible for the accidents never get punished.
While referring to another recent accident at Jamola in Rajouri, he said that in that accident also three members of a family from Dani Dhar lost their lives. Later, it came to light through other passengers in the same bus that, driver was drunk and was driving rashly. In such cases it become very vital that such guilty persons must be brought to book and strict punishment should be given to them. “For these, we need much more strong and strict laws and few negligent drivers should never be allowed to play with the lives of others”, he added.
He said the accidents have become a routine now and the Government and Civil Society as well as social organizations need to sit together to chalk out a strategy to deal with this. “As we have awareness campaigns for drugs and corruption, similar campaigns are needed for safe and smart driving as well. Now it is the high time that concerned Government departments dealing with vehicular traffic and roads must also give a serious thought to regular accidents and need to design a way out so that the regular loss of life because of these accidents must not become a routine. “The Government should ensure a thorough probe and fix responsibility for the people who are responsible for increasing accidents”. “We can not allow this to go on and remain a mute spectator to this rather, we need to ensure that highest possible punishment is given to culprits behind this”, he added. He said the drivers using mobile phones during driving must be strongly punished as this is a serious issue as far as safety of the people traveling in vehicles or those walking on the footpaths is concerned.
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