Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned as Railway Minister owning moral responsibility

He (Lal Bahadur Shastri) resigned as Railway Minister owning moral responsibility, when an accident occurred in Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu in 1956 in which 144 persons were killed. In fact, he had put in his papers when an accident had occurred in Mahboobnagar three months earlier, killing 112. But Nehru had not accepted it. He refused to continue in the post after the Ariyalur accident. (From The Hindu report titled Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904 - 1966): A selfless leader dated Monday, Jun 30, 2003 ).