Kanpur train mishap was conspiracy: PM

Gonda (UP): The Kanpur train tragedy in which 150 people were killed, was a ‘conspiracy’ and the perpetrators carried it out ‘sitting across the border’ in Nepal, PM Narendra Modi said on Friday. Addressing an election meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district, which is close to the Indo-Nepal border, he touched upon the derailment of 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express near Pukhraya in Kanpur Dehat district on November 20, and said the findings showed it was a ‘conspiracy’. "If the cross-border foes want to carry out their work, is it not necessary that more vigil is maintained in Gonda," Modi asked people as he exhorted them to vote for the BJP. pti