Which Railway Minister from the following, resigned immediately after the 1956 Ariyalur train accident?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the Railway Minister when a train fell into a flooded river near Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu in November 1956, killing more than 140 people. He resigned, taking moral responsibility for the accident; he had offered to resign after an earlier accident at Mahbubnagar the same year, and this time Prime Minister Nehru accepted it.