but this government did nothing apart from shedding crocodile tears,” says a protester.
The search operations entered a third day, although authorities said nearly all those believed to have been missing were now accounted for.Meanwhile, Oreva Farms, a farmhouse of Oreva, the Gujarat-based company that had been in charge of maintaining the bridge for 15 years, was shut in Ahmedabad city.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had been touring the state which has elections due by early next year, is visiting the disaster site and Morbi hospital. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was attacked by opposition parties for what they called an unseemingly fresh paint job for the hospital ahead of the prime minister’s visit.