Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticizes Prime Minister Narendra Modi for retaining Ashwini Vaishnaw as the railway minister despite a spurt in train accidents, particularly the triple-train tragedy at Bahanaga in Balasore district on June 2 last year. Ramesh questions the value placed on Odia lives by the PM.
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Besides big four, PM s core team of ministers have also retained their portfolios. Nitin Gadkari (road transport and highways), Piyush Goyal (commerce and industry), Dharmendra Pradhan (education), Sarbananda Sonowal (ports, shipping and waterways), Virendra Kumar (social justice and empowerment), Ashwini Vaishnaw (railways, electronics and information technology), Hardeep Puri (petroleum and natural gas) and Bhupender Yadav (environment, forest and climate change) will continue running the ministries they were handling in the last five years. Some of them have shed additional portfolios that were allocated when others left the council of ministers in the past.