Gujarat: The Morbi bridge collapsed on October 30, leaving at least 130 dead. Several top leaders including President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi, along other politicians expressed grief on learning about the unfortunate incident.
Congress leaders attacked the BJP over the bridge collapse. Rajya Sabha member Randeep Surjewala terming it a "man-made tragedy" and held the state government directly responsible for it. Meanwhile, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh asked if the incident was an "act of God or an act of fraud" while alluding to a phrase that Prime Minister Modi had reportedly used at a rally lampooning the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal after the Vivekananda Road flyover collapsed in Kolkata on March 31, 2016, killing many.
The video from 2016 showing PM Modi address an infrastructure failure in Bengal has resurfaced on social media after Singh and other alert netizens pulled out the 'Act of God' vs 'Act of Fraud' comments by Modi ji. No sooner Twitter began to trend with the key phrases.
Senior lawyer and politician Prashant Bhushan took to Twitter along with other netizens to question the Indian Prime Minister and asked, "Morbi bridge collapse is act of God, or act of fraud, Modiji?"
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